BEAUTY SHOP (UMD/PSP/WS 1.78 ANAMORPHIC/2.0/ENG-SUB/FR-BOTH) DVD

Beauty Shop
While the men of Barbershop and Barbershop 2 have plenty to mouth off about, they may have met their match in the female staff and clientele of a nearby beauty shop. Directed by Bille Woodruff, Beauty Shop revolves around these women led by Gina (Queen Latifah), who opened Beauty Shop to give all the females in the community, from a conservative Southern socialite (Andie MacDowell) to a poetry-reciting stylist, a place to talk about life, love, and the issues of the day, all while getting their hair done. Bryce Wilson puts in a supporting performance, as does Kevin Bacon, who plays the snooty owner of a rival salon. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide

Cast Queen Latifah as Gina Norris

Crew Kevin Kavanaugh - Art Director Kim Coleman - Casting Victoria Thomas - Casting Sharen Davis - Costume Designer Will Clark - First Assistant Director Bille Woodruff - Director Michael Jablow - Editor Matt Alvarez - Executive Producer Todd Lieberman - Executive Producer Ice Cube - Executive Producer John Gary Steele - Production Designer Theo Van de Sande - Cinematographer Robert Teitel - Producer George Tillman, Jr. - Producer David Hoberman - Producer Erik Baiers - Producer Elizabeth Cantillon - Producer Shakim Compere - Producer Queen Latifah - Producer Tim Cooney - Sound/Sound Designer Norman Vance, Jr. - Screenwriter Audrey Wells - Screenwriter Kate Lanier - Screenwriter

Beauty Shop
Beauty Shop sticks so closely to the Barbershop template, it's as much a female replica of those films as Ms. Pac-Man is a female version of Pac-Man. Queen Latifah builds on her cameo role from Barbershop 2: Back in Business, taking over the central role from Ice Cube and trying to open her own salon in Atlanta. Add in Alicia Silverstone, echoing Barbershop's white hairdresser "trying to be black," and another generous helping of workplace debates on contemporary issues (here instigated by a sassy radio DJ), and you've got a pretty strict adherence to a pretty successful formula. Not the tired retread one might expect, however, Beauty Shop bursts with life, having attracted a spectrum of enthusiastic performers and a script (by a trio of female writers) that provides them enough depth to exceed broad character types. Beauty Shop displays a curious ambivalence about riding the coattails of its predecessors -- it certainly relies on the name recognition, but the only cursory reference to the earlier films is that Gina hails from Chicago, where they were set. Perhaps that's due to carving out its own identity as a crossover film; Andie MacDowell, Mena Suvari, and Kevin Bacon (vamping wildly as a Eurotrash salon owner) join Silverstone in comprising the white half of a truly multicultural cast. Beauty Shop values its female-ness over its ethnicity, as many of the issues surround how men treat their women and how women can compete in a man's world. Latifah is the den mother overseeing this hub of intersecting lives, always displaying the confidence and character that has turned her into an A-list star. The result is a mostly witty and observant piece of feminism lite, one that doesn't need a man -- or the largely male movie that spawned it -- to walk tall. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
 

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General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, French Sound Processing: Additional Features: Full-length movie Widescreen presentation DVD picture quality DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1: Alternate Wide Screen MPAA Rating: PG13 DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 105 min