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
Shampoo (1975)
62 %
Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 18 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
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 California. In the last few days before the 1968 election, George (Warren Beatty), a very popular... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Warren Beatty, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn
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The laughs are tempered by bleakness and the film ends up saddened by its characters' waywardness.
02/09/06
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I didn't care much for the trim this satire on a girl crazy Beverly Hills hairdresser gave me.
07/17/08
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
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Beatty mercilessly lampoons his own offscreen image in a bumptious comedy of manners that turns persuasively sombre at the end.
10/31/07
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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.
09/30/06
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
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Shampoo never quite connects its images of national mediocrity and personal self-deception.
10/23/04
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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
A lacerating portrait of an emotionally empty hairdresser and the multitudinous female company he keeps.
03/10/03
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