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Barbershop (2002)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:96
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Besides bringing on the laughs, Barbershop displays a big heart and demonstrates the value of community.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for language, sexual content and brief drug references
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Sep 13, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $75,074,950
Synopsis:
Barbershop is a smart comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin (Ice Cube), who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop...
Barbershop is a smart comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin (Ice Cube), who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.
Calvin's barbershop is filled with an eclectic and hilarious cast of characters that share their stories, jokes, trials and tribulations. In the shop we find Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), an old barber with strong opinions and no customers. Jimmy (Sean Patrick Thomas) is a highly educated barber with a superiority complex who can't stand Isaac (Troy Garity), the new, white barber who just wants a shot at cutting some hair. Ricky is an ex-con with two strikes against him and is desperately trying to stay straight. Terri (rap star Eve, making her feature film debut) is a hard-edged woman who can't seem to leave her two-timing boyfriend. And lastly there's Dinka, a fellow barber who is madly in love with Terri but doesn't get the time of day.
Ice Cube leads an all-star cast, including Anthony Anderson, in a touching comedy about one day in and around the barbershop.
-- © 2002 MGM Pictures
Starring: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve
Starring: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Jazsmin Lewis, Troy Garrity, Anthony Anderson
Director: Tim Story
Director: Tim Story
Screenwriter: Mark Brown, Don D. Scott
Producer: George Tillman, Robert Teitel
Composer: Terence Blanchard
Studio: MGM/UA
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Reviews for Barbershop
This may seem too homespun, but the film manages to avoid mawkishness and will win you over with its good heart.
The movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest, lived-in glow.
The movie's heart is in the right place, which generates enough warmth to make one root for it.
This Barbershop may not provide you a soapbox or a good fade, but it'll definitely leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling.
The comedy belongs to Cedric the Entertainer who's simultanesously out-of-control funny and awe-inspiring.
While there are certainly smarter slices of African-American life to be found on the screen, Barbershop is several fades above the average run of street burlesque and middle-class family dramedy.
One of the most refreshing things about this movie is the way it gives free reign to the sort of freewheeling debate that actually rages in some barbershops over what are accepted orthodoxies right outside the door.
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