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Bookmark this pageHair Show (2004)
Director: Leslie Small
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From Time Out New York
When Peaches (Mo'Nique) needs to make some money to pay off debts to the IRS, she relocates from B-more (Baltimore, that is) to Los Angeles. Once there, she reconnects with her hairstylist sister Angie (Smith), who is attempting to fend off a rival salon. Unfortunately, cardboard cutouts would have had more depth than the sorry excuses for characters that Hair Show offers. The comedy attempts to blend Barbershop 2 with Steel Magnolias, but instead pathetically belittles Asian- and African-American cultures with hyperbolic caricatures, and portrays all women as scheming playa haters.Author: CF
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