Rating: R
Genre: Comedy Drama
Release Date: 01/21/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French/KO/KO
Dubbed: English/French
Run Time: 109 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar

A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the Nixon era. It is Election Day, 1968, and randy Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) is too worried about attending to all of his women's tonsorial and sexual needs, while trying to swing a bank loan to fund his own salon, to notice the fateful Presidential race. As George juggles the demands of girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) and mistress Felicia (Lee Grant), not to mention Felicia's daughter (Carrie Fisher), he meets Felicia's husband Lester (Jack Warden) to get money for the salon and discovers that his beloved ex-girlfriend Jackie (Julie Christie) is now Lester's mistress. Lester asks George to escort Jackie to a banquet for Nixon supporters, leading to a series of climactic confrontations at the dinner and a Hollywood orgy that expose the conflicting demands of sex, love, and security among these terminally narcissistic L.A. denizens. As Nixon's victory speech drones in the background the following day and Paul Simon's mournful '60s music plays on the soundtrack, George's free-wheeling world collapses around him for reasons that he can barely begin to comprehend. Produced and co-written (with Chinatown scribe Robert Towne) by its star Warren Beatty, Shampoo became Beatty's second critical and popular success as a producer after Bonnie and Clyde, and it bolstered Hal Ashby's track record as director. Shampoo earned Grant an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a Supporting Actor nomination for Warden and Beatty's first nomination as writer. With Nixon's 1974 Watergate disgrace adding an extra edge to the humor for 1975 audiences, this tragic bedroom farce became one of the highest-grossing films in Columbia Pictures' history at the time.

~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Warren Beatty - George
Julie Christie - Jackie
Goldie Hawn - Jill
Lee Grant - Felicia
Jack Warden - Lester
Tony Bill - Johnny Pope
Carrie Fisher - Lorna
Jay Robinson - Norman
George Furth - Bank Officer
William Castle - Sid Roth

Production:
Hal Ashby - Director
Warren Beatty - Producer
John Barry Paul Simon - Composer
Robert Jones - Editor
Warren Beatty Robert Towne - Screen Writer
George P. Gaines Robert Resh Charles M. Zacha, Jr. - Set Designer
Charles H. Maguire - Associate Producer
Mike Fenton - Casting
Laszlo Kovacs - Cinematographer
Anthea Sylbert - Costume Designer
Art Levinson - First Assistant Director
Thomas E. Case - Makeup
Richard Sylbert - Production Designer
W. Stewart Campbell - Production Designer
Charles H. Maguire - Production Manager
Tom Overton - Sound/Sound Designer
Jane Feinberg - Casting

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