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Hair Show (2004)

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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 10

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Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 6

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Movie Info

Blood may be thicker than water, but it doesn't hold a candle to hairspray, as we learn in this urban comedy. Angela (Kellita Smith) is a successful hairdresser who operates her own salon based in Los Angeles. One day, Angela gets an unexpected visit from her sister Peaches (Mo'Nique), who runs a beauty shop of her own in Baltimore. The family reunion turns out to not be as happy as Angela may have hoped -- Peaches is trying to stay a step ahead of IRS agents who want to collect 50,000 dollars

PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Leslie Small

Written By: Leslie Small

In Theaters: Oct 15, 2004 Wide

On DVD: May 10, 2005

Box Office:$0.2M

UrbanWorks Entertainment

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Cast

Mo'Nique
Peaches
Kellita Smith
Angela
Gina Torres
Marcella
David Ramsey
Cliff
Taraji P. Henson
Tiffany
Keiko Agena
Jun Ni
Cee Cee Michaela
Simone
Joe Torry
Brian
Andre B. Blake
Gianni
Vivica A. Fox
Herself
James Avery
Seymour Gold
David Haines
Police Officer #1
Sarah Lilly
Jan (Secretary)
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister
Agent Little
John Salley
Himself
Tom Virtue
Agent Scott
Don Franklin
Basil
Mari Morrow
Gina
Devika Parikh
Wanda
Niecy Nash
Debra
Jacqueline Fleming
Margo
Bruce Bruce
Lime Pimp
E-40
Cabbie
Tami Anderson
Zora
Melanie Comarcho
Gold-teeth Girl
Susan Leslie
Mother #2
Reagan Gomez-Preston
Fiona
Serena Williams
Agent Ross
Michelle Griffin
Mona
Bryce Wilson
Drake
Alex Avant
Officer Banks
Angela Maria Dixon
Sherina
Jamaica JaToi
Pierre
Joyful M'Chelle
Stephanie Cole
Annie McKnight
Noxema
Kimberly Moss
Betty
Neferteri Shepherd
Ria
Adimu Colon
Rasta M.C.
Giorgi-O
Dark Gable
Nicole Pano
Woman Driver
Roshumba Williams
Star
Jerome Barnes
Comic #1
Gary Johnson
Comic #2

Critic Reviews for Hair Show

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (10) | DVD (2)

The story here, by Andrea Wiley, Sherri A. McGee and Devon Gregory, is slapped together with such poorly drawn stereotypes and lapses in logic as to provoke not shaking bellies but shaking heads.

November 4, 2004 Comment

Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

An anemic sitcomsitcom pilot dragged out to an excruciating 108-minute running time.

October 21, 2004 Full Review Source: Variety

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Scott Foundas

Variety

Top Critic

The plot is slender but serviceable, and under Leslie Small's attentive direction, not only do Mo'Nique and Smith excel, but those playing salon staffers -- Taraji Henson, Keiko Agena, Cee Cee Michaela et al -- also make lively impressions.

October 20, 2004 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kevin Crust

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

A predictable urban comedy set mostly in a chichi Beverly Hills beauty salon, Hair Show is a female-oriented Barber Shop -- minus the steady humor and pointed social commentary.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Robert Dominguez

New York Daily News

Top Critic

The story is so slight, a low-wattage hair dryer could blow it away.

October 15, 2004 Comment

Megan Lehmann

New York Post

Top Critic

A Baltimore hairstylist takes refuge, and umbrage, in her buppie sister's Los Angeles salon in this sputtering star vehicle for the comedian Mo'Nique.

October 14, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Ned Martel

New York Times

Top Critic

Coiffure competition at center of sibling rivalry comedy!

January 24, 2007 Comment

Kam Williams

Black Talent News

Just funny enough to recommend for fans of that BET brand of stand-up humor which incessantly appeals to the lowest common denominator.

January 24, 2007 Comment

Kam Williams

Black Talent News

stars Mo'nique, who's both fatter and sassier than [Queen] Latifah, but alas, not a whole lot funnier.

October 28, 2004 Full Review Source: New Times

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Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

This chop shop is a tad shabby.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: E! Online

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E! Online

What this rehash desperately needs is some real style, but even an industrial-strength can of hair spray can't keep it from coming undone.

October 15, 2004 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Angel Cohn

TV Guide's Movie Guide

The movie feels flattened by relaxers when it should have been teased into a wicked curl.

October 14, 2004 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly

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Robert Abele

L.A. Weekly

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Peaches (Mo'Nique), an award-winning hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister Angela (Smith) get reacquainted when Peaches visits her sister in Beverly Hills. But the reunion may be bittersweet when Angela finds out Peaches in on the run from the IRS.

May 31, 2008

Danielle S

This movie could've been better. I just didn't really get the whole thing of a man-whore in a hair salon, but whatever.

September 19, 2006

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