Rent Shampoo (1975)
3.2 of 5 from 110 ratings
1h 45min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- George (Warren Beatty) is one of L.A.'s most desirable men, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who makes all his female clients look, and feel, better than ever. Encouraged by his girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) to open his own salon, George approaches conservative businessman Lester (Jack Warden) for financing. Unbeknownst to Lester, George is sleeping with his wife (Lee Grant), his mistress (Julie Christie) and his teenage daughter (Carrie Fisher). Can George resist temptation and settle down with Jill or will he get tangled up in even more scandalous affairs?
- Actors:
- Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill, George Furth, Jay Robinson, Ann Weldon, Luana Anders, Randy Scheer, Susanna Moore, Carrie Fisher, Mike Olton, Richard E. Kalk, Ronald Dunas, Hal Buckley, Jack Bernardi, William Castle, Brad Dexter
- Directors:
- Hal Ashby
- Producers:
- Warren Beatty
- Writers:
- Robert Towne, Warren Beatty
- Others:
- Richard Sylbert, George Gaines, W. Stewart Campbell
- Studio:
- Columbia Tristar
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- Award Winners, Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Julie Christie - At 85, Glynis & Angela: Ninetysomething Marvels, People of the Pictures, Remembering Robert Towne, The Biggest Oscar Snubs: Part 1, Top 10 Tennis Films, Top 100 AFI Laughs, Top Films
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 05/11/2018
- Run Time:
- 110 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New conversation between critics Mark Harris and Frank Rich
- Excerpt from a 1998 appearance by producer, cowriter, and actor Warren Beatty on The South Bank Show
- An essay by Rich
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Reviews (1) of Shampoo
Great Hair, Thin Lather - Shampoo review by griggs
For something with this much sex, politics and star power, Shampoo left me oddly cold. Nixon’s 1968 win plays out on television while Warren Beatty’s airhead hairdresser bounces between lovers and bad decisions in Beverly Hills, but the “political promiscuity” idea never quite clicks; the election feels like wallpaper rather than a pulse.
Beatty leans into the himbo act, yet George is such a drifting idiot that it’s hard to care whether he gets a salon, a partner or a reckoning. Hal Ashby keeps things loose and busy, but the film just drifts from bed to party and back again.
The saving grace, for me, is Goldie Hawn. She gives Jill a mix of fragility and bite the film doesn’t always deserve, and every time she turns up the energy lifts. Take her out and you’re left with a nicely dated curio, not something I’m in a hurry to revisit.
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