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.
Score
Rose Royce's 'Car Wash' is the third lead.
Acting
Franklyn Ajaye's 'Fly' steals every scene.
Direction
Schultz keeps a dozen plates spinning.
Director
Michael Schultz
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
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Pryor and George Carlin shot their scenes in one day; Pryor improvised most of his preacher bit.
This was one of the first studio films with an almost entirely black cast not explicitly about 'black issues'—it just *was* black life.
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