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Shampoo (1975) -- Wicked social satire about a sexy male hairdresser that does more than hair. Warren Beatty lampoons his own womanizer reputation in this feature concerned only with who is "doing" who and the superficial appearances of the upper class of Beverly Hills.
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Director:
Writers:
Robert Towne (written by) and
Warren Beatty (written by)
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Release Date:
13 March 1975 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Your hairdresser does it better... more
Plot:
Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations more
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Cast

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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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Runtime:
109 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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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. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After George cuts Jackie's hair, her formerly streaked tresses are all a uniform blonde tint although he has not colored her hair. more
Quotes:
[to George]
Jill: You never stop moving! You never go anywhere!
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Blowdry (1976) more
Soundtrack:
It Might as Well Rain Until September more

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23 out of 37 people found the following comment useful.
The Country Wife, 25 July 2003
Author: casper-12

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.

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