OVERVIEW
A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she has, as Aunt Em teases her, "never been south of 125th Street", and refuses to move out and on with her life.
RUNTIME
134
GENRE
Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Music
PRODUCTION COUNTRY
United States of America
DIRECTOR
Sidney Lumet
CAST
Diana Ross (Dorothy), Michael Jackson (Scarecrow), Nipsey Russell (Tinman), Ted Ross (Lion / Fleetwood Coup de Ville), Theresa Merritt (Aunt Emma), Lena Horne (Glinda the Good), Richard Pryor (The Wiz), Mabel King (Evillene), Thelma Carpenter (Miss One), Stanley Greene (Uncle Henry), Quincy Jones (Emerald City Gold Pianist)
CREW
L. Frank Baum (Author), Joel Schumacher (Screenplay), Rob Cohen (Producer), Kenneth Harper (Executive Producer), Berry Gordy (Executive Producer), Charlie Smalls (Original Music Composer), Dede Allen (Editor), Tony Walton (Production Design), Oswald Morris (Director of Photography), Hank Muller (Assistant Camera), Kenneth Utt (Production Manager), Tony Walton (Costume Design), Quincy Jones (Music Arranger), Quincy Jones (Music Supervisor), Louis Johnson (Choreographer), Albert Whitlock (Visual Effects), Stan Winston (Makeup Designer), Philip Rosenberg (Art Direction), Burtt Harris (Associate Producer)
CREDITS
Universal Pictures, Motown Productions