The WIZ / Le Magicien d’Oz (1978)

Cast/Avec Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Richard Pryor…

A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry . 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. While Dorothy cleans up after the meal, her dog Toto runs out the open kitchen door into a violent snowstorm. She succeeds in retrieving him, but finds herself trapped in the storm…

Dorothy, jeune institutrice de Harlem se lance à la poursuite de son chien lorsqu'un tourbillon la transporte dans un Harlem remplit de fées, de sorcières et de magiciens. Elle recherche alors le magicien d'Oz, le seul qui puisse la sortir de là. Adaptation urbaine et afro-américaine du Magicien d'Oz.