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Car Wash

Car Wash

Where anything can happen...and usually does!

1976•1h 37m•5.9/10
ComedyDramaRomance

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🎬TMDb
5.9/10(124)

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.

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Production

Universal Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Ivan Dixon

Ivan Dixon

Lonnie

DeWayne Jessie

DeWayne Jessie

Lloyd

Bill Duke

Bill Duke

Duane – Abdullah

Franklyn Ajaye

Franklyn Ajaye

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

Sully Boyar

Sully Boyar

Leon "Mr. B" Barrow

Melanie Mayron

Melanie Mayron

Marsha

June Pointer

June Pointer

The Wilson Sister

Bonnie Pointer

Bonnie Pointer

The Wilson Sister

Anita Pointer

Anita Pointer

The Wilson Sister

Ruth Pointer

Ruth Pointer

The Wilson Sister

Lauren Jones

Lauren Jones

Marleen

Richard Brestoff

Richard Brestoff

Irwin Barrow

Tracy Reed

Tracy Reed

Mona

Antonio Fargas

Antonio Fargas

Lindy

James Spinks

James Spinks

Hippo

Clarence Muse

Clarence Muse

Snapper

Darrow Igus

Floyd

Leon Pinkney

Leon Pinkney

Justin

Ren Woods

Ren Woods

Loretta

Jack Kehoe

Jack Kehoe

Scruggs

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