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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.
30 June 1917, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
22 February 1949, New York City, New York, USA
9 February 1945, New York City, New York, USA
11 June 1937, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
17 April 1911, New York City, New York, USA
20 April 1951, Kips Bay, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
7 May 1948, USA
10 February 1963, New York City, New York, USA
25 December 1932, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
15 January 1952, Bronx, New York, USA
7 August 1934, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
July 15, 2003
Flat-footed screen version of a jubilant show; a miscast mess, sad to say
November 20, 2002
Nearly as lame as its reputation suggests.
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
January 24, 2004
A celebration of personhood with plenty of rousing rock-and-soul-and gospel music.
August 30, 2002
A total misfire; Ross was too old for Dorothy. Badly dated, doesn't hold up at all.
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.
April 01, 2003
This one's so bad it's good, but not so good that I'd say that it isn't bad.
August 14, 2005
Among many faults, Diana Ross is miscast
May 23, 2011
It lost its magic.
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 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.