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13 March 1975 (USA)
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Your hairdresser does it better... more
Plot:
Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 2 wins
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9 nominations
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(23 articles)
'70s behind-the-camera greats: How Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond put the cinema in cinematography
(From EW.com - The Movie Critics. 18 November 2009, 12:48 PM, PST)
Vilmos Zsigmond: From Hungary with Cameras
(From The Guardian - Film News. 12 November 2009, 2:35 PM, PST)
(From EW.com - The Movie Critics. 18 November 2009, 12:48 PM, PST)
Vilmos Zsigmond: From Hungary with Cameras
(From The Guardian - Film News. 12 November 2009, 2:35 PM, PST)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Warren Beatty | ... | George Roundy |
 | Julie Christie | ... | Jackie Shawn |
 | Goldie Hawn | ... | Jill |
 | Lee Grant | ... | Felicia Carp |
 | Jack Warden | ... | Lester Carp |
| Tony Bill | ... | Johnny Pope |
| George Furth | ... | Mr. Pettis |
 | Jay Robinson | ... | Norman |
| Ann Weldon | ... | Mary |
| Luana Anders | ... | Devra |
| Randy Scheer | ... | Dennis |
| Susanna Moore | ... | Gloria |
 | Carrie Fisher | ... | Lorna Carp |
| Mike Olton | ... | Ricci |
| Richard E. Kalk | ... | Detective Younger |
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109 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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UK:X (original rating) |
West Germany:18 |
Australia:M |
Portugal:M/12 |
Finland:K-16 |
Iceland:L |
Netherlands:16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:R |
UK:18
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Warren Beatty claims the idea to set the story during the 1968 election night at a Republican Party party was his own.
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Continuity: After George cuts Jackie's hair, her formerly streaked tresses are all a uniform blonde tint although he has not colored her hair.
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It Might as Well Rain Until September
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Beatty says he approached Towne to do a modern version of the classic restoration comedy called The Country Wife (hilarious by the way). In the original play, the hero beds all the wives by confessing to their husbands that he's impotent so the husbands make fun of him and think nothing of leaving their frustrated and underappreciated wives in his care.
Here in the updated "Shampoo", Beatty and Towne make the hero an assumed-to-be-gay hairdresser (instead of impotent)and the results are inspired bedroom farce mixed with social satire.
Younger viewers may find the film a little dated but it was a "period" film when it was made (set in 68 when it was shot in 74) so Ashby consciously gave it that dated look. For me this and Heaven Can Wait are Beatty's best work. Walks a fine comic/tragic line. And this really feels like the closest character to Beatty's heart. It was after this that I went back and saw Splendor in the Grass and began to appreciate Beatty as an actor rather than just a gigolo celebrity.
Great dialogue by Towne, Jack Warden's hilarious and Julie Christie is stunning.