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This article is about the 2005 comedy film. For the American band, see The Beauty Shop. For establishments dealing hair treatment, see Beauty salon.
Beauty Shop
Promotional release poster
Directed byBille Woodruff
Screenplay byKate Lanier
Norman Vance, Jr.
Story byElizabeth Hunter
Produced byDavid Hoberman
Robert Teitel
George Tillman, Jr.
Queen Latifah
Shakim Compere
StarringQueen Latifah
Alicia Silverstone
Andie MacDowell
Alfre Woodard
Mena Suvari
Lil' JJ
Adele Givens
Kevin Bacon
Djimon Hounsou
CinematographyTheo van de Sande
Edited byMichael Jablow
Music byChristopher Young
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • March 30, 2005 (2005-03-30)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$37,245,453[1]

Beauty Shop is a 2005 American comedy film directed by Bille Woodruff. The film serves as both a third installment and a spin-off of the Barbershop film franchise, and stars Queen Latifah as Gina, a character first introduced in the 2004 film Barbershop 2: Back in Business. This film also stars Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Mena Suvari, Kevin Bacon and Djimon Hounsou.

Plot

Gina Norris (Queen Latifah) is a widowed hairstylist who has moved from Chicago to Atlanta so her daughter, Vanessa (Paige Hurd), can attend a private music school. She's made a name for herself as a stylist, but after her self-centered boss, Jorge (Kevin Bacon), criticizes her decisions, she leaves and sets up her own shop, purchasing a run-down salon by the skin of her teeth by helping out a loan officer.

Upon buying the salon, she runs into instant barriers: loudmouthed young stylists, older clients who are set in their ways, an energetic young boy named Willie (Lil' JJ) who constantly flirts with women (including Vanessa) while filming for his next music video, people wary of her ability as a hairdresser and the constant trouble her rebellious sister-in-law, Darnelle (Keshia Knight Pulliam), finds herself in. Gina issues an ultimatum with Darnelle to clean up her act and start paying her back or she will be evicted. In a short time, the previous owner's clients become her own and many of her former customers find their way from Jorge's to her salon. When electrical issues arise, she finds that the upstairs renter, Joe, is a handsome electrician from Africa who eventually bonds with Vanessa due to his skills on the piano. Because Jorge is jealous that his shop is losing clients to Gina's, he pays a health inspector named Crawford (Jim Holmes), to find various ways to shut down Gina's business.

Over time, neighborhood regulars frequent the shop and the varied stylists become close to Gina, as does Joe (Djimon Hounsou). One of her former clients from Jorge's even uses her connections to set up a meeting with Cover Girl for Gina's homemade miracle conditioner, affectionately called "hair crack".

Tragedy strikes when the shop is trashed and heavily vandalized the night before Vanessa's big piano recital. When Gina next enters the shop, she finds not only that her staff has cleaned up the majority of the mess and brought items from home so the shop could operate, but Darnelle has also decided to grow up and enter beauty school. While filming for his next topic, Willie tapes a meeting between Jorge and Inspector Crawford and learns that they were responsible for trying to ruin Gina. Shortly, a disheveled woman enters the shop and begs for someone to fix her hair for a wedding she has in a few hours. Soon after, Willie shows Gina the videotape of a meeting he filmed of Jorge and Inspector Crawford. Later that night, Gina goes to Jorge's salon to not only tell him about the tape, but that she knows he is not Jorge from Austria, but George Christie from Nebraska. No sooner than Gina leaves, James (Bryce Wilson) (Gina's only male employee) and a few of his friends give Jorge an extreme haircut as payback for what he did to her in trying to close her shop.

Later, as the shop listens to their favorite radio talk show host DJ Hollerin' Helen (Adele Givens), they find out she was the desperate customer on the way to the wedding as she gives the shop (and Gina's "hair crack" conditioner) a shout out on the radio.

Cast

Cameo appearances

Reception

Reviews for the film were mixed; it earned a 39% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from the users, and a higher 54% from the critics, with the consensus being that the film itself was not the equal of Queen Latifah's strong performance.[2] Allmovie gave the film 3/5 stars, with reviewer Derek Armstrong saying that while the film sticks to the same formula which made the Barbershop films so successful, it still "bursts with life, having attracted a spectrum of enthusiastic performers and a script that exceeds broad character types."[3] At Metacritic, the film has averaged a 53 rating from critics, and an almost identical 5.4/10 rating from users.[4] The best reviews for the film have come from Yahoo! Movies, where the critics have given the film a B- average, and users helped it to earn a B+.[5]

Awards and nominations

2005 BET Comedy Awards

  • Outstanding Directing for a Theatrical Film — Bille Woodruff (nominated)
  • Outstanding Lead Actress in a Theatrical Film — Queen Latifah (nominated)
  • Outstanding Theatrical Film (nominated)
  • Outstanding Writing for a Theatrical Film — Audrey Wells, Kate Lanier, Norman Vance Jr. (nominated)

2005 Black Movie Awards

  • Outstanding Achievement in Writing — Kate Lanier, Norman Vance Jr. (nominated)
  • Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role — Queen Latifah (nominated)

2005 Teen Choice Awards

2006 Black Reel Awards

  • Best Actress — Queen Latifah (nominated)

2006 NAACP Image Awards

  • Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture — Queen Latifah (nominated)

References

  1. ^ "Beauty Shop (2005)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
  2. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1139289-beauty_shop/, Rotten Tomatoes
  3. ^ http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:302684~T1, Allmovie Review
  4. ^ http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/beautyshop?q=Beauty%20Shop, Metacritic
  5. ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808543769/info, Yahoo! Movies
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