Film

Car Wash

1976 · 1h 37m · Comedy · Drama · Romance

Where anything can happen...and usually does!

IMDb

6.2

Rotten Tomatoes

86%

Metacritic

71

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.

Ivan Dixon

Lonnie

DeWayne Jessie

Lloyd

Bill Duke

Duane – Abdullah

Franklyn Ajaye

Theodore Chauncy "T.C." Alcott (The Fly)

Sully Boyar

Leon "Mr. B" Barrow

Melanie Mayron

Marsha

June Pointer

The Wilson Sister

Bonnie Pointer

The Wilson Sister

Anita Pointer

The Wilson Sister

Ruth Pointer

The Wilson Sister

Lauren Jones

Marleen

Richard Brestoff

Irwin Barrow

Tracy Reed

Mona

Antonio Fargas

Lindy

James Spinks

Hippo

Clarence Muse

Snapper

• Michael SchultzDirector
• Joel SchumacherWriter
• Gary StrombergProducer
• Art LinsonProducer
• Frank StanleyDirector of Photography
• Norman WhitfieldOriginal Music Composer
• Christopher HolmesEditor
• Don PhillipsCasting

Official Trailer

Release date

October 22, 1976

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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