Even though Shampoo didn't blow me away, at least it was more ambitious than anything playing today.
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01/01/00
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... [More]
Starring: Warren Beatty, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Julie Christie
Director: Hal Ashby
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Reviews for Shampoo
A lacerating portrait of an emotionally empty hairdresser and the multitudinous female company he keeps.
03/10/03
A carefully-directed classic.
01/20/03
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.
06/20/08
Top CriticShampoo never quite connects its images of national mediocrity and personal self-deception.
10/23/04
Top CriticThis 1975 feature is slick and often funny, but the smugness of the satire and the stunted emotions are finally wearying.
01/01/00
Top CriticStar-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.
09/30/06
Kitsch, stylish and a little on the empty side, Shampoo is mirror image of the decade that spawned it.
10/31/07
It's rare for a Hollywood film to have a single decent part for a woman: four great ones is unheard of. And all the female leads are spectacular, giving performances on par with the best of their careers.
01/01/00
There's a deep, soulful confusion here that isn't careless with frivolity.
01/01/00
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.
10/05/03
Doesn't stand the test of time.
01/27/03
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.
05/09/05
Top CriticI didn't care much for the trim this satire on a girl crazy Beverly Hills hairdresser gave me.
07/17/08
All the excellent creative components do not add up to a whole.
10/31/07
Top CriticBeatty mercilessly lampoons his own offscreen image in a bumptious comedy of manners that turns persuasively sombre at the end.
10/31/07
The laughs are tempered by bleakness and the film ends up saddened by its characters' waywardness.
02/09/06
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12/22/03
It's a bit slow by today's standards; it doesn't hold up.
08/05/02
No review available.
10/31/02
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