Shampoo

Happy Hal-idays

Showings

The Roxy Theater Screen 2 Wed, Dec 5, 2018 7:00 PM
Film Info
Series:Happy Hal-idays: Celebrating Hal Ashby
Rating:R
Run Time:109 min
Release Year:1975
Country:US
Genre:Comedy
Format:Digital
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Hal Ashby
Cast Members:Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn
Writers:Robert Towne, Warren Beatty

Description

Happy Hal-idays: Every Wednesday in December, The Roxy is celebrating three immortal comedies by the great American director Hal Ashby--Shampoo, Harold and Maude, and Being There--followed by Hal, an acclaimed documentary portrait of the master's life and work.

Shampoo gives us a day in the life of George (Warren Beatty), 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—played brilliantly by Goldie Hawn, Julie Christie, and Lee Grant (in an Oscar-winning performance). 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.