Synopsis
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
Ratings
IMDb6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Metacritic71/100
133 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael SchultzDirector
- Joel SchumacherWriter
- Norman WhitfieldOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ivan DixonLonnie
- DeWayne JessieLloyd
- Bill DukeDuane – Abdullah
- Franklyn AjayeTheodore Chauncy "T.C." Alcott (The Fly)
- Sully BoyarLeon "Mr. B" Barrow
- Melanie MayronMarsha
- June PointerThe Wilson Sister
- Bonnie PointerThe Wilson Sister
- Anita PointerThe Wilson Sister
- Ruth PointerThe Wilson Sister
- Lauren JonesMarleen
- Richard BrestoffIrwin Barrow
Stills
Themes
1970smusicallos angeles, californialaborcar washnostalgicblack militantday in a lifeworkplace comedyin a dayblack communityplayful