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Shampoo

Your hairdresser does it better.

1975 · 1h 50m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Hal Ashby

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Overview

A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to gather the money to open his own salon are continually side-tracked by the distractions presented by his many lovers.

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All reviews
63%
Tomatometer
Fresh

There's a self-awareness to Shampoo that gives the movie a cleansing sadness and, oddly, makes Beatty an affectingly amoral roue.

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

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.

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

All the excellent creative components do not add up to a whole.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

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.

Nora Sayre, New York Times
Rotten

Shampoo never quite connects its images of national mediocrity and personal self-deception.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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