Shampoo

Author

Hal Ashby

Call Number

• DVD COMEDY (CEN, OSH)

Edition

DVD special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Tony Bill.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

MPAA rating: R.

Summary

Shampoo gives us a day in the life of George, a Beverly Hills hairdresser and Lothario who runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to scrape together the money to open his own salon are continually sidetracked by the distractions presented by his lovers. Star Warren Beatty dreamed up the project, cowrote the script with Robert Towne, and enlisted Hal Ashby as director, and the resulting carousel of doomed relationships is an essential seventies farce, a sharp look back at the sexual politics and self-absorption of the preceding decade.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack ; 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.