Title The Wiz Overview A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 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. Tagline From the book that's an American tradition… from the smash-hit Broadway show… the entertainment of the year! Genres Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music Keywords melancholy, little dog, based on stage musical, based on film, wizard Production Companies Universal Pictures, Motown Productions Production Countries United States of America Spoken Languages English Original Language en Runtime minutes 134 Release Year 1978
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 21 million USD