Car Wash

A day in the life of the employees at a Los Angeles car wash--most are black, but a Native American and a Mexican American are also out on the line. Two classic scenes are the "mummy in the car" scene and the chase around the car wash with the "Pop-Bottle Bomber." Richard Pryor's character "Daddy Rich" is loosely-based on a famous 1970s power-hungry preacher. One of the DJs heard in the movie is J.J. Jackson, who went on to be one of the original MTV VJs in the early 1980s.