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Release Date:
13 March 1975 (USA)
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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
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Awards:
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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Carrie Fisher's screen debut.
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Anachronisms: Coca-Cola can George drinks from while chatting with Lorna is a post 1968 design.
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Featured in Indie Sex: Censored (2007) (TV)
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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This is one of those films that all takes place in one 24-hour period. When such movies work, the changes in the characters' lives feel more real and intense. So it is in "Shampoo", as we watch George's world slowly crumble.
Rarely has a movie-star's real life persona been used to better effect. Warren Beatty gives a moving performance as a guy who sincerely does not intend to hurt anyone, but he becomes a victim of his own allure. He is supported by fantastic ensemble acting.
Written by Beatty and Robert Towne (Chinatown), and directed by Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, Being There), "Shampoo" is Hollywood moviemaking at its best, and it deserves to be ranked with its more well-known contemporaries, like "M*A*S*H", "Annie Hall", and "The Sting". Its theme of the emptiness of unchecked promiscuity is still relevant in a culture where sex is more of a commodity than ever.