Shampoo (1975)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Hal Ashby

Writers:

Robert Towne (written by) and
Warren Beatty (written by)

Release Date:

13 March 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Your hairdresser does it better...

Plot:

Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968.

Plot Keywords:

Hairdresser | Cooking | Motorcycle | Cuban Heels | Beatles Song

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations

Cast

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

Also Known As:

Shampoo (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Shampoo (Denmark) [da]
Shampoo (Brazil) [pt]
Shampoo (Finland) [fi]
Shampoo (France) [fr]
Sosyete kuaförü (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

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

Filming Locations:

240 N Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Warren Beatty rides a 500cc Triumph Tiger 100 motorcycle, registration 356455. The paint job is not standard despite the incorporation of the Triumph logo and it is uncertain whether it was Beatty's personal bike.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Coca-Cola can George drinks from while chatting with Lorna is a post 1968 design.

Quotes:

[explaining to Lester why he had sex with his wife, mistress and daughter]
George Roundy: Face it, they know we're always trying to nail 'em and they don't like it. They like it and they don't like, it's got nothing to do with you Lester. It just happened.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry/The Band (#2.6)" (1976)

Soundtrack:

Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)

why don't more people love shampoo?

In a recent interview in Cineaste magazine, celeb film critic Pauline Kael described the 1970's as the greatest decade of American movies. She then laid claim by listing her seven favorite films from that period. One of the films mentioned was Shampoo. I couldn't agree more with Pauline. Aside from the lighting and some of the camerawork, everything in the film is about as good as it gets---Robert Towne's ear for common parlance, Beatty's understated charisma, and Ashby's whirlwind direction.

It's strange that more people haven't written about this movie. In many ways, Shampoo seems to have been forgotten, floating somewhere in film history heaven. I live in Los Angeles and have never heard about it being screened anywhere. Dave Kehr and the critical establishment in general have all written it off as a film that hasn't aged well. And I've never seen a book written about either Shampoo or Ashby. Am I living in a vault or is this really the legacy of Shampoo? If you don't like this movie, I urge you to write or contact me. My e-mail address is listed above. I simply don't understand why more people don't