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Barbershop

Name: Barbershop
Director: Tim Story
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2002
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Cast: Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve

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Comedy
Drama

2002
Tim Story
98 mins
12A

Summary

Comedy starring Ice Cube. Chicago hairdresser Calvin Palmer makes a life-changing decision to sell his salon for a quick buck. But he realises that the establishment is an important meeting point for a wide variety of community characters, and that greed may have finally got the better of him.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Jason Caro

The progression of Ice Cube from musician to credible leading man was given a boost by his self-assured performance here as Calvin Palmer, the jaded owner of a Chicago hairdressing salon that's threatened with foreclosure. A warm but far from tame slice-of-life comedy, it follows the salon through what could be its last day, as barbers and their customers trade jokes and neighbourhood gossip, and Calvin struggles to come up with the cash. The message in director Tim Story's movie, that the establishment - and, by implication, tradition - is vital to the community, is short on subtlety, and a slapstick subplot about a stolen cash dispenser is a needless distraction. However, the camaraderie and antagonistic banter of the workplace are well observed and brightly performed - particularly by stand-up comedian Cedric the Entertainer, who plays a veteran, fearlessly non-PC barber with belligerent gusto.

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6.4/10

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