The Pointer Sisters Movies

In 1974, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman staged a heavyweight championship fight in Zaire, and a three-day music festival was held there to help celebrate the event. This video records The Pointer Sisters' spectacular performance in front of 80,000 African fans, filmed by Leon Gast (who also made the award-winning documentary about the Ali/Foreman fight, When We Were Kings). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Michael Schultz directed this kinetic, hyperventilating comedy (scripted by Joel Schumacher) concerning the crazed events that go on within a single 10-hour period at a Los Angeles car wash. The cast of colorful car-wash employees includes Lonnie (Ivan Dixon), an ex-con; Duane (Bill Duke), a militant black activist; and Lindy (Antonio Fargas), an obnoxious homosexual. Sully Boyar plays Mr. B, the frazzled car-wash owner who has to deal with his screwball employees along with his over-educated slip of a son, Irwin (Richard Brestoff), who quotes Mao and wants to radicalize the workers. Also along for the wash and wax are Miss Beverly Hills (Lauren Jones), with a wild assortment of wigs; Marsha (Melanie Mayron), the distracted car wash secretary; a mad bomber (Prof. Irwin Corey), who is terrorizing the neighborhood; and Daddy Rich (Richard Pryor), the founder of the Church of Divine Economic Spirituality, who sports a gold limousine. Danny de Vito, Brooke Adams and others were originally in the cast but their scenes were ultimately deleted. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Lightyear Entertainment presents this collection of music videos by the legendary pop outfit the Pointer Sisters. The Pointer Sisters: So Excited includes a total of seven classic videos by the group, including "I'm So Excited," "Jump (for My Love)," "Baby Come and Get It," "Dare Me," "Freedom," "Back in My Arms," and "Twist My Arm." ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

Launching their career with a series of records that blended contemporary R&B with jazz and classic New Orleans sounds, Ruth Pointer, Anita Pointer, June Pointer, and Bonnie Pointer were critical favorites and charted a few minor hit singles during the 1970s. But it was after Bonnie left the group and producer Richard Perry nudged the three sisters into a more pop-oriented direction in the 1980s that the Pointer Sisters earned the popular success they so richly deserved. In the new millennium, the Pointer Sisters -- featuring Ruth and Anita Pointer, as well as Ruth's daughter Nisha Pointer -- are still going strong, and this performance video features a show recorded in the spring of 2004 in Billings, MT. The Pointer Sisters: Live in Concert includes the songs "I'm So Excited," "He's So Shy," "Slowhand," "Fire," "Neutron Dance," "Wang Dang Doodle," "Jump," and more. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi