Shampoo

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Harry R Feb 12, 2019 The performances are there. That's about it though.

Abraham G Nov 21, 2018 I really enjoyed this for many reasons

Leia S Jun 16, 2018 Hal Ashby's bedroom farce about a bed-hopping hairdresser and his ludicrous sexual conquests centers around the fateful Election Day of 1968 to contrast the hypocrisy and deceit of sex and politics. See more

George S Aug 23, 2017 Story about a male hairdresser whose a major ladies man and goes around the entire film trying to please women. Girls love him because in addition to being good in bed, he listens to what they have to say. But of course they won't marry him because he has no money. Relevant today as it was 42 years ago. Also very funny. See more

Finn W Jun 2, 2017 There's a downbeat seventies feel to Shampoo, even as it seems to be a satire on the sexual mores of the Beverly Hills set. Warren Beatty is the hairdresser who sleeps with all of his clients ("heads") despite stringing along Goldie Hawn who really loves him (maybe). But Beatty's character is so empty we never get inside him, even as he can't make up his mind about whether he should commit to Julie Christie, who enters back into his life as the mistress of the businessman husband (Jack Warner) of one of his clients (Best Supporting Oscar winner Lee Grant). Beatty is so empty that he defeats the film's attempt to make this a character study, although emptiness may be the focus of screenplay (by Chinatown's Robert Towne). The action occurs on the night of Nixon's election in 1968, sounding another bum note in the apparent tribute to hedonism (and narcissism) that was soon to come crashing down. (And poor Julie Christie has a few crude scenes that just don't feel right). Still, that is one hell of a party (with Beatles, Hendrix, Buffalo Springfield soundtrack) they seemed to be having in 1968. Unfortunately, no one here has a sense of what they really want and the film drifts as they attempt to find out. I expected more from director Hal Ashby and this team. See more

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