The Wiz (1978)
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.
30 September 1933, Newark, New Jersey, USA
15 January 1922, Brooklyn, New York, USA
5 September 1919, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
1 December 1940, Peoria, Illinois, USA
1 July 1896, Pendleton, Indiana, USA
January 24, 2004
A celebration of personhood with plenty of rousing rock-and-soul-and gospel music.
April 01, 2003
This one's so bad it's good, but not so good that I'd say that it isn't bad.
May 23, 2011
It lost its magic.
August 30, 2002
A total misfire; Ross was too old for Dorothy. Badly dated, doesn't hold up at all.
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
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
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.
July 15, 2003
Flat-footed screen version of a jubilant show; a miscast mess, sad to say
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.
November 20, 2002
Nearly as lame as its reputation suggests.
