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The Wiz (1978)
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Dorothy, an African-American nursery teacher, left for a big family dinner to search for her lost dog. Due to a major blizzard in New York City, a severe cyclone swept through Dorothy. Suddenly, she finds herself miraculously moving into a fictional land called Oz the Alien. Dorothy may be looking for a homecoming but there is a witch who will tell her about a wizard named Wiz who will help her reach Manhattan. Dorothy went on another journey to look for Wiz in order to return.
Dorothy, an African-American nursery teacher, left for a big family dinner to search for her lost dog. Due to a major blizzard in New York City, a severe cyclone swept through Dorothy. Suddenly, she finds herself miraculously moving into a fictional land called Oz the Alien. Dorothy may be looking for a homecoming but there is a witch who will tell her about a wizard named Wiz who will help her reach Manhattan. Dorothy went on another journey to look for Wiz in order to return.
Actors:
Donald King,
Lani Groves,
Derrick Bell,
Mabel Robinson,
Damon Pearce,
Mike Hayes,
Leon Pendarvis,
Helen Miles,
Robin Givens,
Táta Vega,
Frances Salisbury
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Donald King
Lani Groves
Derrick Bell
Mabel Robinson
Damon Pearce
Mike Hayes
Leon Pendarvis
Helen Miles
5 September 1919, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Robin Givens
27 November 1964, New York City, New York, USA
Táta Vega
7 October 1951, Queens, New York, USA
Frances Salisbury
9 February 1945, New York City, New York, USA
Country:
United States
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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.
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July 15, 2003
Flat-footed screen version of a jubilant show; a miscast mess, sad to say
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It lost its magic.
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April 01, 2003
This one's so bad it's good, but not so good that I'd say that it isn't bad.
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August 14, 2005
Among many faults, Diana Ross is miscast
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
November 20, 2002
Nearly as lame as its reputation suggests.
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.
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.
January 24, 2004
A celebration of personhood with plenty of rousing rock-and-soul-and gospel music.
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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.
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