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Synopsis
Dorothy, a young African-American kindergarten teacher leaves a large family dinner one night to chase after her dog during a New York City snowstorm and gets swept up by a cyclone and transplanted to the urban version of the land of Oz.
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    Sidney Lumet,
  • Writer:
    L. Frank Baum, Joel Schumacher,
  • Producer:
    Rob Cohen,
  • Cinematographer:
    Oswald Morris,
  • Editor:
    Dede Allen,
  • Executive Producer:
    Kenneth Harper, Berry Gordy,
  • Cast:
    Michael Jackson, Theresa Merritt, Mabel King, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell, Diana Ross, Ted Ross,
  • Associate Producer:
    Burtt Harris,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Angelo Corrao, Marlayna Franklin,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Burtt Harris,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Alan Hopkins,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Jack Fitzstephens,
  • Camera Operator:
    James A. Contner,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Lynne Twentyman,
  • Property Master:
    Connie Brink,
  • Sound Editor:
    Stan Bochner, Ronald Roose, Marc Laub, Al Nahmias, Hal Levinsohn,
  • Set Decoration:
    Robert Drumheller, Edward Stewart,
  • Supervising Music Editor:
    Jack Fitzstephens,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Allen Weisinger, Carl Fullerton, Michael R. Thomas, Scott Cunningham,
  • Hairstylist:
    William A. Farley, Ted Long,
  • Production Manager:
    Kenneth Utt,
  • Sound Mixer:
    James Sabat,
  • Assistant Costume Designer:
    Dona Granata,
  • Music Arranger:
    Quincy Jones,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Charlie Smalls,
  • Makeup Designer:
    Stan Winston,
  • Music Editor:
    Jack Fitzstephens,
  • Visual Effects:
    Albert Whitlock,
  • Music Supervisor:
    Quincy Jones,
  • Orchestrator:
    Robert N. Tucker Jr.,
  • Gaffer:
    Norman Leigh,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Everett Creach,
  • Costume Design:
    Tony Walton,
  • Wardrobe Assistant:
    George Newman, Marilyn Putnam,
  • Choreographer:
    Louis Johnson,
  • Scenic Artist:
    Eugene Powell, Edward Garzero,
  • Special Effects:
    Al Griswold,
  • Songs:
    Charlie Smalls,
  • Screenplay:
    Joel Schumacher,
  • Production Office Coordinator:
    Grace Blake,
  • Production Design:
    Tony Walton,
  • Makeup Supervisor:
    Robert Laden,
  • Author:
    L. Frank Baum,
  • Costume Coordinator:
    Gloria Gresham, Anna Hill Johnstone,
  • Second Unit Director of Photography:
    Jack Priestley,
  • Recording Supervision:
    Dick Vorisek,
  • Art Direction:
    Philip Rosenberg,
  • Assistant Art Director:
    John Jay Moore,
  • Sound Supervisor:
    Jack Fitzstephens,
  • Assistant Camera:
    Hank Muller,
  • Key Grip:
    Kenneth Goss,

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