![]() I’ll say this much about Car Wash, it has a catchy as shit theme song. It must have pushed some buttons or boundaries at the time to get noticed. It’s certainly not funny enough or interesting enough to have become a hit purely on those merits. Maybe it was ground breaking or revolutionary at the time. Now that I have seen Car Wash, I really have absolutely no idea why it’s a movie I was even aware existed 40 odd years after its release. There’s confused, fast talking cab driver (George Carlin) and there’s probably another dozen or so key characters who I was never able to differentiate. ![]() There’s out and proud gay man, Lindy (Antonio Fargas). There’s resident hard working, humble everyman, Lonnie (Ivan Dixon). There’s the local evangelist preacher and obvious con man, Daddy Rich (Pryor). There’s the pimped out car washer with big dreams, T.C (Ajaye). There’s honky owner Mr B (Sully Boyar) and his college graduate, Mao Zedong worshipping son, Irwin (Richard Brestoff). In this case, it’s a day in the life of a Los Angeles car wash, its many colourful employees, and various other people who come in contact with them through the course of a work day. With the movie opening as the titular business does, it was pretty clear from the get go that this was one of those day-in-the-life-of movies.
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