Paul Riser (Motown Arranger/Musician)

A look at the history of Motown and how Canada factored into it.

In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group of musicians had played on more number ones hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined - which makes them the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music. They called themselves the Funk Brothers. Forty-one years after they played their first note on a Motown record and three decades since they were all together, the Funk Brothers reunited back in Detroit to play their music and tell their unforgettable story, with the help of archival footage, still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances of Motown classics with the Brothers backing up contemporary performers.

Una visión mundana, irreverente pero cariñosa, de un día normal en un túnel de lavado de coches de Los Ángeles. Una obra coral que entremezcla las vidas de empleados clientes y transeúntes. Interpretada por un elenco de actores, la mayoría de los cuales son relativamente desconocidos para los espectadores, y entre los que destaca un conjunto de estrellas invitadas que interpretan brillantes papeles episódicos, como George Carlin, el "Profesor" Irwin Corey, las Pointer Sisters y Richar Prior, que da vida a Daddy Rich, un extravagante reverendo que predica las bondades del dólar. "Car Wash" puede considerarse la primera película "disco" del mundo. La banda sonora, que suena casi sin interrupción, original de Norman Whitfield se ha convertido en un superventas

A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.