**The Wiz** is a 1978 American musical fantasy film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, and Lena Horne. The film is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*, with an African-American cast and a soul, funk, and R&B soundtrack. The film follows Dorothy (Ross), a Harlem schoolteacher who is transported to the magical land of Oz after a tornado hits her apartment building.
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