Shampoo
by Hal Ashby
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Actor: Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden, Julie Christie, Lee Grant, Warren BeattyDirector: Hal Ashby
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Shampoo
Movie Review: Cool Movie; Anachronistic Fashions
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie has remains a bittersweet, vital thing, and is well acted, but the production has a fault that galls me in any "period" movie--the clothes are often of the moment of the film's making, NOT from 1968. Why would it have been difficult to make the wardrobe consistently 60s--and what better expert on what 1968 should look like than Goldie Hawn, a co-star in the film? They got cars and women's skirts right, but most of the male clothing (including bizarro, button-pocket jacket-shirts) and accessories (giant, translucent sunglasses, e.g.), and male hair (Beatty's semi-believable Morrison-quoif excluded), and some of the women's clothes, e.g., Julie Christie's pants outfits, scream "spring of 1975." The Shampoo production people forgot that 1968 fashions looked a heck of a lot more like the mid 60s than the mid 70s. I am sure they were blind to this at the time--it can be hard to recognize the "historical" quality of one's current haircut or clothing. But the hair knows. If you want to see actual 1968 . . . everything, see the (also bittersweet) film Medium Cool, shot at the time this film is set.
Summary of Shampoo
For those who consider Bulworth to be a savage and unprecedented political send-up, it's worth revisiting Warren Beatty's first, and best, attempt at outrageous social criticism. Mercilessly exposing the essential vacuity of both the sexual revolution and conservative alarmism over cultural permissiveness, Shampoo remains the best movie ever made about Nixon's America, and one of the very best about the tragic and disappointing conclusion to the 1960s. Set on the eve of the 1968 presidential election that elevated Nixon to the Oval Office, Beatty's uproarious satire follows a hairdressing Lothario (played by Mr. You're So Vain himself) in and out of the beds of several women, including the wife of a wealthy businessman, his mistress, and his young daughter (Carrie Fisher, in her first screen role). Juxtaposing tropes from Restoration comedy with Southern California dialogue and a healthy, hilarious dash of running commentary from election returns, Beatty's ruthless awareness cuts through the film like a scalpel. The performances are uniformly excellent and surprisingly ego-free; though Jack Warden's portrayal of Lester, the twice-cuckolded businessman, stands out as a model of sensitive, nuanced parodic acting. Released in 1975 during the messy cleanup at the conclusion of the Watergate era, Shampoo neatly bookends the Nixon presidency, and concludes with the frightening finality of an iron door slamming on a cell. Commended for including the live version of Jefferson Airplane's Plastic Fantastic Lover. --Miles BethanyComedy DVD Video
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