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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

For me, Shampoo was a film that could not make up its mind as to what it wanted to discuss or represent. Is it a supposedly a feel-good comedy or a comedy or drama that exposes many obvious temptations and bad practices in the hair-dressing industry ? And anyway, do we really need an expose of low morals in the barber and hair dressing industry? I'm surprised that barbers and hair dressers have not attacked this film more vigorously. Admittedly, there were a few protests, but they were rather weak.I will agree that the movie is well acted and the characters seem very much like real people. So much like real people in fact that the film carries an "R" certificate from the censor. No doubt many people will find the movie amusing. And some others no doubt will be outraged. But frankly I found it both obnoxious and boring. As entertainment, it is far too lifelike for comfort. If I were rating it for its entertainment quality, I would give it close to zero.

Some people, often movie critics, love "Shampoo". However, when I watched it tonight I wasn't particularly impressed nor did I love the film. I think much of this is because I am watching it in 2016...and back in 1975 the film was more shocking and groundbreaking. Now, it just seems a bit dull.The film is about a womanizing jerk. George (Warren Beatty) is a hairdresser whose life seems to revolve around compulsively having sex with women. When the film begins, he's juggling two women (Lee Grant and Goldie Hawn) but after he meets an old flame (Julie Christie), he begins to juggle all three...and even takes time for a quickie with a fourth (Carrie Fisher). During all this time, he's trying (not very hard mind you) to get the funding to open up his own hair salon. All this, at times, is set to the strains of lots of 60s music (almost like it's a music video) and the 1968 election.I think the reason the film worked in 1975 was its coarse language (f-bombs and middle fingers as well as vulgar terms for sex rarely used before in films). Other than the novelty of all this, the film itself was a bit dull...much of it because of the banality of the plot and characters. In essence, these are a lot of shallow, narcissistic folks who are difficult to care about in any way--even when George, inexplicably, shows a desire to finally settle down. The acting, I suppose, is good but the plot left me flat. Who cares who George makes it with in the film? I didn't.

I guessed this film would have something to hairdressing because of the obvious title that I heard a number of times, I was interested in watching mostly because of the good cast, directed by Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, The Last Detail, Being There). Basically set during a 24-hour period in 1968, on the eve of the presidential election that would see Richard Nixon become President of the United States, it sees a day in the life of successful Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Golden Globe nominated Warren Beatty, also writing and producing). George's occupation and charisma have given him the perfect platform to meet and have sex many beautiful women, including his current girlfriend Jill (Golden Globe nominated Goldie Hawn), but he is dissatisfied with his professional life, he feels he is the creative star of the salon, playing second fiddle to owner Norman (Jay Robinson). George dreams of owning his own salon, but he lacks the money to do so, so he turns to his wealthy lover Jackie (Golden Globe nominated Julie Christie) and her unsuspecting husband Lester (Oscar and BAFTA nominated Jack Warden) to finance him, the situation is complicated by the secret that Lester's current mistress, Jackie, is George's former girlfriend, the most serious relationship he has ever had. Lester assumes that George is gay, he invites him to a Republican Party election night soiree, escorting Jackie, there the room is full of many of his present and former sexual partners, they later move on to a posh counterculture party, filled with drugs, alcohol and sexual indulgence. Lester and Jill catch George and Jackie having vigorous sex on the kitchen floor, Lester is impressed, but Jackie throws a chair at them, George tries to reconcile with Jill, while Jackie sees him for the rascal he is and flees. George realises he feels true love for Jackie, he proposes to her, by then it is too late, Jackie announces that Lester is divorcing his wife Felicia (Oscar winning, and Golden Globe nominated Lee Grant), who George has also been involved with, Lester will be taking her to Acapulco, George no longer has Jackie, Jill or Felicia, he realises his moral errors and has an epiphany, but it ultimately ends bleakly for him. Also starring Tony Bill as Johnny Pope, Carrie Fisher as Lorna, George Furth as Mr. Pettis, Ann Weldon as Mary, Randy Scheer as Dennis, Susanna Moore as Gloria, Mike Olton as Ricci, Luana Anders as Devra, William Castle as Sid Roth, Brad Dexter as Senator East, Howard Hesseman as Red Dog and Richard E. Kalk as Detective Younger. Beatty is good at being the sleazy and not easy to like hairdresser messing around with various women, Hawn is pretty and good at being innocent, Christie with her own English accent is likable as the woman who doesn't take nonsense, Warden is good in his time on screen, and I can see reasons why Grant would win the Oscar. I agree with critics that this film is amoral and has memorable moments of sorts, not just the sexual stuff, it grossed millions at the box office, but it didn't make me laugh much, and it doesn't quite have the same flair as other complicated relationship films, overall it is an average satirical comedy drama. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, and it was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical. Worth watching!

I remember back in the day this being a monster hit. It was on TV recently, and I decided not to miss it, having never seen it.Ay yi yi, what a disappointment. Here's the 'plot.' Over the course of maybe two days, hairdresser juggling three girlfriends (including one who's married) loses all three. The end.You'd think a premise like that would be rich with plot possibilities, but Towne and Beatty apparently thought that people with good bodies in nice clothes -- with the occasional flash of nudity -- would be plot enough.