Car Wash

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OCOpen Captioned
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Cinema Studies

Car Wash

Celebrate Art House Theater Day with this special repertory screening of the classic 1976 comedy Car Wash.

It’s a typical day for the crew at L.A.’s Dee-Luxe Car Wash. Besides the kaleidoscope of colorful customers, including a flamboyant evangelist (Richard Pryor); a wacky cab driver (George Carlin); and possibly the notorious “Pop Bottle Bomber” (Irwin Corey), they have their own hopes and fears to deal with. Working at the car wash has its challenges, but the Dee-Luxe cast of characters get the job done in this classic comedy, set to a Grammy Award-winning soundtrack from funk icons Rose Royce.

"The screenplay and the direction juggle the characters so adroitly, this is almost a wash-and-wax M*A*S*H."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"In its erratic narrative, random assortment of characters, and omnipresent soundtrack, Car Wash captures something perfectly: the rhythms of a working-class work day."
Josh Larsen, LarsenOnFilm


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