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The Wiz (1978)
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..
15 January 1952, Bronx, New York, USA
1 July 1896, Pendleton, Indiana, USA
20 April 1951, Kips Bay, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
January 7, 1904 in Frederick, Oklahoma, USA
27 November 1964, New York City, New York, USA
August 14, 2005
Among many faults, Diana Ross is miscast
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.
August 30, 2002
A total misfire; Ross was too old for Dorothy. Badly dated, doesn't hold up at all.
April 01, 2003
This one's so bad it's good, but not so good that I'd say that it isn't bad.
July 15, 2003
Flat-footed screen version of a jubilant show; a miscast mess, sad to say
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.
November 20, 2002
Nearly as lame as its reputation suggests.
May 23, 2011
It lost its magic.
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
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.
January 24, 2004
A celebration of personhood with plenty of rousing rock-and-soul-and gospel music.