Car Wash (1976)
"Where anything can happen...and usually does!"
ThumbScore
👍 71%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 86%
(RT: 86%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Ivan Dixon as Lonnie
DeWayne Jessie as Lloyd
Franklyn Ajaye as Theodore Chauncy "T.C." Alcott (The Fly)
Sully Boyar as Leon "Mr. B" Barrow
Melanie Mayron as Marsha
June Pointer as The Wilson Sister
Bonnie Pointer as The Wilson Sister
Is Car Wash good?
Most people think so. 71% audience score, estimated from 135 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 86%.
Overview
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift. Wikipedia ↗
