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The Wiz (1978)
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Dorothy is an African-American nursery teacher who will leave a big family dinner day to search for her dog during a major blizzard in New York City. Perhaps the fate will be against Dorothy when he is swept away by a typhoon. The same teacher found herself miraculously moved to a fictional land called Oz. Dorothy needs to go home again and there is no other way than a wizard named Wiz who will help her reach Manhattan again..
Dorothy is an African-American nursery teacher who will leave a big family dinner day to search for her dog during a major blizzard in New York City. Perhaps the fate will be against Dorothy when he is swept away by a typhoon. The same teacher found herself miraculously moved to a fictional land called Oz. Dorothy needs to go home again and there is no other way than a wizard named Wiz who will help her reach Manhattan again..
Actors:
Ullanda McCullough,
Claude Brooks,
Charles Collins,
David Lasley,
Tony Brealord,
Charles Rodriguez,
Joe Lynn
Ullanda McCullough
Claude Brooks
Charles Collins
January 7, 1904 in Frederick, Oklahoma, USA
David Lasley
20 August 1947, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA
Tony Brealord
Charles Rodriguez
20 December 1949, Puerto Rico
Joe Lynn
4 July 1947, Ohio, USA
Country:
United States
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Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
August 30, 2002
A total misfire; Ross was too old for Dorothy. Badly dated, doesn't hold up at all.
Kalamazoo Gazette
July 15, 2003
Flat-footed screen version of a jubilant show; a miscast mess, sad to say
May 23, 2011
It lost its magic.
May 08, 2011
Sidney Lumet's all-black musical, starring Diana Ross, is a failed effort to transfer the setting of the Judy Graland musical to contempo Manhattan.
January 24, 2004
A celebration of personhood with plenty of rousing rock-and-soul-and gospel music.
April 11, 2016
If you can take it just as an occasion for the exercise of some real talents, a good time can be had much of the time.
Juicy Cerebellum
April 01, 2003
This one's so bad it's good, but not so good that I'd say that it isn't bad.
October 25, 2008
Well, it's nice to see the child-voiced Michael Jackson with a bulbous brown nose in this black American retake of The Wizard Of Oz
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
November 20, 2002
Nearly as lame as its reputation suggests.
December 18, 2015
Sidney Lumet's spectacular, joyous production of The Wiz generates a mood of wonder and sentimental rapture recalling the arrival of the Mother Ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
EmanuelLevy.Com
August 14, 2005
Among many faults, Diana Ross is miscast