Blow Dry

Blow Dry
by Paddy Breathnach

Blow Dry
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Actor: Alan Rickman, Josh Hartnett, Natasha Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Rachel Griffiths
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Brand: Disney
Producer: Chris Sievernich
Producer: David Brown
Producer: David Rubin
Producer: Guy East
Producer: Julie Goldstein
Producer: Mark Cooper
Writer: Simon Beaufoy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax

Movie Reviews of Blow Dry

Movie Review: Swept up with Blow Dry
Summary: 4 Stars

Blow Dry is a CANT MISS comedy with a bitter sweetness that you will enjoy.

With talented Actors like Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Rachel Griffiths, Rachael Leigh Cook, and Josh Hartnett, this small British comedy about a hair styling contest with Romeo and Juliet overtones. Watch Hartnett and Cook shine in their roles. Rickman showcases he can do evil villians in Die Hard, then pull off this role as a stylist who is feeling lost in and from his craft

This interconnected stories of a family and friends of a hair cutting group. The small town gets the contest and starts the interpersonal relationships and rivaleries

If you looking for a special effect movie, pass this by. If you looking for a movie with a heart, similar to the small films like WEaking Ned Devine, Gregory's Girl or Fully Monty, this film is for you

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

Summary of Blow Dry

Starring Rachael Leigh Cook (SHE'S ALL THAT), Josh Hartnett (PEARL HARBOR), and Alan Rickman (GALAXY QUEST) in a great ensemble cast -- the Academy Award(R)- nominated writer of THE FULL MONTY has crafted a hilarious story about the things everyone wants in life: love, happiness, and great hair! As the National Hair Championships descend upon a small town in England, the country's top stylists aren't expecting much from the local talent. But they didn't count on Phil Allen (Rickman), the retired golden boy of the competition circuit, entering the fray! Also starring Natasha Richardson (THE PARENT TRAP), Rachel Griffiths (MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING), and supermodel Heidi Klum -- laugh along as the locals dazzle the out-of-towners with some hair dos ... and don'ts.
Despite a gifted Anglo-American cast, Blow Dry strikes an uneasy balance between sentiment and camp. It aims for the same sort of high-wire act that Strictly Ballroom and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert pulled off so effortlessly, but melodrama wins the day. The comic moments are suitably over-the-top (as expected in a film about dueling hairdressers), but rarely as amusing as intended. The relationships between barbershop owner Phil (Alan Rickman), ex-wife Shelley (Natasha Richardson), and Sandra (Rachel Griffiths), "the other woman," could be more fully developed but are affecting nonetheless.

The setting is West Yorkshire. The event that brings them together is the British National Hairdressing Championships. Phil initially resists the urge to compete as it reminds him of the success he and Shelley once enjoyed, but his son Brian (Pearl Harbor's Josh Hartnett) convinces him to give it a go.

Hartnett and Rachael Leigh Cook (She's All That), as the daughter of Phil's old nemesis, seem like peculiar casting choices for a British film, but Hartnett's accent is passable (Cook plays an American) and they don't embarrass themselves as much as supermodel Heidi Klum, who plays a tacky, two-timing hair model. The screenplay is by Simon Beaufoy of Full Monty fame. Although not up to that standard--and certainly no match for Shampoo (the greatest hairdressing movie of all time)--Blow Dry is still a good showcase for the talents of its three leads. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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