The Wiz (1978)
An adaption of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African American experience. Dorothy, a young African-American kindergarten teacher leaves a large family dinner one night to chase after her dog during a New York City snowstorm and gets swept up by a cyclone and transplanted to the urban version of the land of Oz.
1 June 1947, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1 December 1940, Peoria, Illinois, USA
20 August 1947, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA
13 January 1925, Richmond, Virginia, USA
8 March 1952, Miami, Florida, USA
14 March 1933, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 August 1958, Gary, Indiana, USA
24 September 1924, Emporia, Virginia, USA
8 March 1945, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, UK
17 April 1911, New York City, New York, USA
4 July 1947, Ohio, USA
10 February 1963, New York City, New York, USA
20 December 1949, Puerto Rico
10 August 1948, New York City, New York, USA
April 01, 2003
This one's so bad it's good, but not so good that I'd say that it isn't bad.
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.
August 14, 2005
Among many faults, Diana Ross is miscast
November 20, 2002
Nearly as lame as its reputation suggests.
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.
May 23, 2011
It lost its magic.
July 15, 2003
Flat-footed screen version of a jubilant show; a miscast mess, sad to say
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
August 30, 2002
A total misfire; Ross was too old for Dorothy. Badly dated, doesn't hold up at all.
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.
