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Shampoo (1975)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:17

Rotten:11

Average Rating:6.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: This fast-paced 1975 comedy, written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby (previous collaborators on THE LAST DETAIL), provides a sharp, satiric view of the sexual mores of 1960s Southern... This fast-paced 1975 comedy, written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby (previous collaborators on THE LAST DETAIL), provides a sharp, satiric view of the sexual mores of 1960s Southern California. In the last few days before the 1968 election, George (Warren Beatty), a very popular Beverly Hills hairdresser who wants to open his own shop, becomes sexually involved with several, if not all, of his female customers. Drawing on the audience's knowledge of Beatty's reputation as a ladies' man, Towne's script cleverly uses the expectation of fun and carefree sexual high jinks to then slowly begin to show the emotional damage this lifestyle has done, not just to everyone around him, but in a deeper sense to George himself. On the night that Nixon is elected there is a big party for which George has done all the women's hair. Nixon's corrupt world parallels George's deceitful life, which, in both cases, eventually catches up with them. [More]

Starring: Warren Beatty, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Julie Christie

Starring: Warren Beatty, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Carrie Fisher, Howard Hesseman, Tony Bill

Director: Hal Ashby

Director: Hal Ashby
Screenwriter: Robert Towne
Producer: Warren Beatty
Composer: Paul Simon

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I didn't care much for the trim this satire on a girl crazy Beverly Hills hairdresser gave me.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/17/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Shampoo, made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon's election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades.

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06/20/08
Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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Kitsch, stylish and a little on the empty side, Shampoo is mirror image of the decade that spawned it.

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10/31/07
Richard Luck
Richard Luck
Channel 4 Film

Beatty mercilessly lampoons his own offscreen image in a bumptious comedy of manners that turns persuasively sombre at the end.

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10/31/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

All the excellent creative components do not add up to a whole.

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10/31/07
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety
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Star-producer Warren Beatty takes a stereotypically gay character, a glamorous hairdresser, and turns it into a womanizer in Beverly Hills, which is sort of Our Town, suburbia as small-town America, only four decades later.

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09/30/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

The laughs are tempered by bleakness and the film ends up saddened by its characters' waywardness.

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02/09/06
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10/06/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

Disappointment comes in all weights and flavors, but the brand that's generated by Hal Ashby's Shampoo is a bit harder to swallow than some.

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05/09/05
Nora Sayre
Nora Sayre
New York Times
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11/12/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Shampoo never quite connects its images of national mediocrity and personal self-deception.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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07/29/04
Jake Euker
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06/29/04
Jules Brenner
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05/21/04
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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12/22/03
Greg Muskewitz
Greg Muskewitz
eFilmCritic.com

The jokes and characters are archetypes of America's most ridiculous era, which makes Shampoo serve better as a historical record than a timeless comedy.

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10/05/03
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

A lacerating portrait of an emotionally empty hairdresser and the multitudinous female company he keeps.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Doesn't stand the test of time.

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01/27/03
Mark Robison
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette-Journal

A carefully-directed classic.

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01/20/03
Bill Chambers
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10/31/02
Brian J. Arthurs
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Beach Reporter (Southern California)
 
 
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