Car Wash is about a close-knit group of black employees who one day have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt.

A look at the crazed events that go on within a single 10-hour period at a Los Angeles car wash surrounding employees Lonnie, an ex-con; Duane, a militant black activist; and Lindy, an obnoxious homosexual.

Mr. B the frazzled car-wash owner who has to deal with his screwball employees along with his over-educated slip of a son, Irwin, who quotes Mao and wants to radicalize the workers.

Also along for the wash and wax are Miss Beverly Hills, with a wild assortment of wigs; Marsha, the distracted car wash secretary; a mad bomber, who is terrorizing the neighbourhood; and Daddy Rich, the founder of the Church of Divine Economic Spirituality.

Starring:

• Franklyn Ajaye
• Bill Duke
• George Carlin
• Irwin Corey
• Ivan Dixon
• Antonio Fargas
• Jack Kehoe
• Clarence Muse
• Lorraine Gary
• The Pointer Sisters
• Richard Pryor

Directed by: Michael Schultz