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The Wiz (1978)

An African-American nursery teacher named Dorothy has a strange and exciting story in her life. The story began when Dorothy left for a big family dinner to search for her dog. During a major blizzard in New York City, she was swept away by a severe cyclone and found herself miraculously moving to a fictional land called Oz. There is a witch telling Dorothy how to go home again and there is no path but a wizard named Wiz who will help her to reach Manhattan.
Keywords:  #Diana Ross #Michael Jackson #Nipsey Russell #Sidney Lumet #The Wiz
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
May 23, 2011
It lost its magic.
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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.
Spirituality and Practice
January 24, 2004
A celebration of personhood with plenty of rousing rock-and-soul-and gospel music.
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Washington Post
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.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
November 20, 2002
Nearly as lame as its reputation suggests.
EmanuelLevy.Com
August 14, 2005
Among many faults, Diana Ross is miscast
Juicy Cerebellum
April 01, 2003
This one's so bad it's good, but not so good that I'd say that it isn't bad.
EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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Urban Cinefile
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
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Kalamazoo Gazette
July 15, 2003
Flat-footed screen version of a jubilant show; a miscast mess, sad to say
The New Republic
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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