Car Wash (1976)
A close-knit group of black employees at a Los Angeles car wash
have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt
one day, including Daddy Rich, a money-hungry evangelist from the
"Church of Divine Economics", and a man who is mistaken
as a mad bomber (but who is really simply carrying a urine sample
to hospital).
The film has hardly any plot to speak of, but with
artists such as Rose Royce and the Pointer Sisters, this really is
funky disco at it's best.
Throughout the movie, the (many!) characters discuss love,
religion, prostitution, parenthood, homosexuality, social
climbing, money, class struggle, sex, and above all, music, which
is their unifying element.
There are especially strong performances from Antonio Fargas
(better known as Huggy Bear in Starsky And Hutch)
and comedian Franklyn Ajaye as the Fly, a wanna be super hero with
a crush on a gorgeous, seemingly unattainable woman.
Obviously this is not an Oscar winner, but it is good fun,
sometimes touching, and always entertaining from start to finish.
It's also a good look at LA in the 70's. And, it's one of the few
movies where voice over narration actually works.
Can you dig it? I knew that you could. Solid!
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