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A Beverly Hills hairdresser tries to borrow money from an investment counsellor with whom he has a few things in common. The hairdresser is having an affair with the man's wife, mistress and daughter. Lee Grant won an Oscar for her role as the investment counsellor's wife.

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ProducerWarren Beatty

EAN5050582206746

eBay Product ID (ePID)30482292

Product Key Features

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

Film/TV TitleShampoo

DirectorHal Ashby

LanguageEnglish

Run Time103 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen

Release Year2004

FormatDVD

FeaturesWidescreen

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerPaul Simon

AwardsBest Actress In A Supporting Role 1975 - Lee Grant

Additional InformationIn the heady 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. This fast-paced comedy, written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby (they had previously collaborated on THE LAST DETAIL), provides a sharp satiric view, albeit from the safe distance of 1976, of the sexual mores of Southern California. Although George has a serious girlfriend, Jill (Goldie Hawn), the story revolves around his relationship with Lester (Jack Warden), a wealthy Republican who at first believes George is just his wife, Felicia's (Lee Grant), gay hairdresser until he learns the truth about his relationship with her--and with his mistress, Jill (Julie Christie), and her daughter, Lorna (Carrie Fisher). Obviously drawing on the audience's knowledge of Beatty's well-known reputation as a ladies' man, Towne's script cleverly uses that 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. The big party on election night--for which George has done all the women's hair--serves, with the election of Nixon, as a parallel political story as George's deceitful life, like Nixon's world, eventually catches up with him.

ReviewsNew York Times - ...The American film comedy of the year....A witty, furtively revolutionary, foul-mouthed comedy of manners..., Entertainment Weekly - "...Knowing, satiric comedy....A cleansing sadness [that] oddly makes Beatty an affectingly amoral roue..." -- Rating: B+

Art DirectorStewart Campbell

AuthorRobert Towne

Format DescriptionDVD 5

Sound sourceMono

EditorRobert C. Jones

Movie/TV TitleShampoo

Director of PhotographyLazlo Kovacs