CAR WASH
Directed by MICHAEL SCHULTZ
Screenplay by JOEL SCHUMACHER
There is, occasionally, a certain funky charm about Car Wash. One wishes that somebody had really thought about the thing and shaped it into what it might have beena genuinely affecting, amusing slice of lower-depths urban life. Instead, the picture tries to get by on an unassuming, throw-away airand ends up as an inoffensive disappointment.
The movie purports to do nothing more than record a day in the life of the title institution, from a few minutes before opening to just after closing. The owner is a white man, hard-pressed by automated competition and...
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