Car Wash

1976
12
1 Std. 37 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,2/10

8747

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Satire Workplace Drama Comedy Drama Romance

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,2/10

8747

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 3 Gewinne & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

Videos4

Trailer 2:27

Car Wash

Clip 3:50

Car Wash: Car Wash (Song)

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Car Wash: Car Wash (Song)

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Car Wash: Get Clean

Featurette 1:35

Car Wash: Otis Day On His Character, Lloyd

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CalTempe@aol.com

A Guilty Pleasure

This movie is at the top of my guilty pleasure list. The pace of the movie is very good, introducing many loveable loser characters and their situations quickly and effectively. The ensemble cast moves effectively throughout the movie without stepping on one another. There is a sense of comraderie and spirit that is engaging. The cameos of George Carlin and Richard Pryor actually digress from the action and the multiple stories at play. Obviously, this is not an Oscar winner, but it is good fun, sometimes touching, and 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.

10lee_eisenberg

this is what slice-of-life stories are all about

Richard Pryor's recent death brings to mind all his work, including "Car Wash". This movie portrays one day in the life of several car wash employees in LA. They get a gaggle of wacky customers (including Pryor as cool dude Daddy Rich). Also, some people are trying to develop relationships with each other and such things. Among the other people in the movie are George Carlin as a taxi driver, DeWayne Jessie (aka Otis Day in "Animal House") as one of the employees, and also Antonio Fargas (who apparently played Huggy Bear on "Starsky and Hutch"). Maybe the movie is very much a product of the '70s, but that's part of what makes it so great. A true comedy gem.

lkench

Great movie and cast

I was one of the lucky ones that as a teenager in the 70's saw Car Wash without any deleted scenes. This version takes away a bit from the original. I must add however that it is still a bad flick man and still plays true today! This was all about what was going on at that time. It's not all that different from what is happening in today's world.

We still have black and white tension, married men cheating, girls willing to cheat with them, hookers, drag queens, couples fighting over their future, the good ol boy whose friends make him stay out all night, boy gets girl, and disgruntled employees. This movie was and always will be far out. Can you dig it? I knew that you could.

Solid

7wtcouncil

It is what it IS

If you like funny....pointless.....sophomoric humour, then this is the film for YOU! I have to admit I saw it when I was 11 years old and just fell in love with it! So, if you have a young child's memory of the film...see it...if you are over the age of 13 seeing it for the first time.....then it is what it is.

Given the fact it was even made in 1976 with a largely African-American cast says volumes. Yes, it has some buffoonery and a little step-and-fetchit, but then....these people were STILL working! Whose working now? And, as what? Final Word. It is light-hearted family entertainment and it could begin a dialogue in the family...something to which many of today's films won't ever aspire.

ndimeo

It might not be Hamlet but It's a Classic

I am only 21 years old and have lived in New Jersey all of my life. I never experienced the 1970's nor have I been lucky enough to live in southern California. This movie gives me the best of both worlds, to me this movie represents southern California during the 1970's as it truly is meant to be. It's not about young rich white guys going surfing, or the limelight of Hollywood it just shows you a common everyday struggle of a man trying to make an honest buck in sunny southern California in the 1970's. The movie uses both humor and realism to make it's point. One thing that is a mystery to me about this movie is that for some reason as time has passed Danny Devito's role in the movie has vanished. A great movie that will stand the test of time!

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The title song, "Car Wash", was a #1 chart-topping hit for Rose Royce and was one of the biggest-selling singles of the 1970s disco music era.

Patzer
(around 55 mins) The camera crew is reflected on a station wagon's wing mirror.

Zitate
[Duane has just thrown Irwin's book into a bucket of water]
Lindy: I'm so tired of you running off at your mouth it's getting me down honey. Why don't you just leave? And be an assassin? Or is the only thing you're good at shooting off is your big mouth?
Duane: Will you please get out of my face you sorry looking faggot.
Lindy: Who you calling sorry looking?
[Everybody laughs]
Duane: Can't ya'll see "she" aint funny?
[laughter stops]
Duane: She's just another poor example of how the system is destroying our men.
Lindy: Honey, I'm more man than you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get.

Crazy Credits
The principal cast members are all spoken out at the end of the film by J.J. Jackson, one of the film's deejays.

Alternative Versionen
The TV network version has all of the raunchy scenes, including the ones with the drag queen Lindy, cut and many more added which include:
Hippo first arriving at the car wash and parking his moped in the back lot where he meets Chuco, the Latino worker, getting off a flat-board truck that he is riding in with other Latinos going to work and they whistle at two women passing by.
The first scene with Slide arriving and parking his blue Cadillac down the street, saying "Hi" to T.C. combing his huge Afro hairstyle in front of a store window, and putting an LAPD Out of Order cover on the parking meter rather than paying for it. (This explains Slide's arrest later in the movie for 37 parking tickets.)
The first scene in the locker room has Lonnie, Hippo and Chuco getting into their work clothes while listing to the radio about a bombing by the Mad Pop Bottle Bomber, and Charlie walks in coughing and Hippo comments on Charlie's cough.
Snapper arriving for work and meeting Earl a.k.a.: Mr. Clean getting out his car and removing a polisher from the trunk.
A scene at Big Joe's Dog House next door to the car wash with Joe (Danny DeVito) arguing with Terry (Brooke Adams) about her looking at another guy while parked at a stoplight on their way to work.
Another scene at Big Joe's with Joe arguing with Terry about the work they do while planing breakfast for the first customers.
The montage of washing cars has some scenes with Marsha putting on more makeup and hairspray in place of the shots of Irwin smoking pot in the men's room and Goody walking in on him.
The scene where Earl talks to the Oldsmobile owner is extended with Earl offering to polish the man's car and offers $18.50 for the job which will last four hours, and the car owner finally agrees.
A scene where Irwin sees a plate of danish pastries and takes one which his father Mr. B, tense and worried about everything, takes it away and chases him away. While Mr. B is talking to Marsha about an obituary of a friend dying, Irwin returns and takes the entire plate of danish away to the pinball room to eat them.
A shot of the hooker in the ladies room looking at her self in another fashion with a brunette wig, she decides she does not like it and begins changing into another fashion.
A scene at Big Joe's where Terry is talking to two policemen about her and Joe seeing the movie "Carrie" the other night, the mailman Barney arriving with Joe's mail, and Joe telling the policemen that the coffee they are drinking is 70 cents with their doughnuts. One cop balks saying that Terry gives them coffee for free. Terry is somewhat embarrassed and Joe angrily squeezes a jelly doughnut so hard that the jelly spurts out.
More dialogue between the Hysterical Woman outside the ladies room while Scruggs gets her ill son a bucket for him to throw up in.
While Marsha is chatting with Lindy outside the ladies room, Terry is handling a customer, and Joe delivers Mr. B's lunch where he asks Joe if the meat is lean.
The first scene Kenny is at Big Joe's where he pays Terry for his coffee and kisses her hand much to her shock, Joe sees this and angrily storms out of the place with Terry following after him. (They are seen in the background by Marsha as she eyes Kenny approaching her.)
Terry arriving back at the hamburger stand in tears where she is comforted by Maureen the hooker who tells her about her troubles with a man named Joe too.
A scene which comes after T.C. pushes Terry away from the phone booth for him to call and win the radio contest, Terry enters the phone booth after T.C. leaves and calls her mother and asks if Joe is there with her.
A scene where Terry is closing down Big Joe's for the day, Joe returns and as Maureen the hooker watches, he and Terry kiss and make up.
Marsha's story line ends on a more downbeat note as while waiting for Kenny to pick her up, she says goodbye to Chuco as he board the same flat-board truck with the other Latino workers heading for home, Kenny arrives with his date, a more attractive woman, as well his less-attractive friend Benny as Marsha's date. Marsha is crushed but has no choice but to accompany them for their evening out.
More dialogue between Justin and Snapper, his grandfather, while they are waiting for the bus where Loretta arrives and Justin says hi to her before going back to Snapper and tells him that he's going to get a ride with her.