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A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the Nixon era. It is Election Day, 1968, and randy Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) is too worried about attending to all of his women's tonsorial and sexual needs, while trying to swing a bank loan to fund his own salon, to notice the fateful Presidential race. As George juggles the demands of girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) and mistress Felicia (Lee Grant), not to mention Felicia's daughter (Carrie Fisher), he meets Felicia's husband Lester (Jack Warden) to get money for the salon and discovers that his beloved ex-girlfriend Jackie (Julie Christie) is now Lester's mistress. Lester asks George to escort Jackie to a banquet for Nixon supporters, leading to a series of climactic confrontations at the dinner and a Hollywood orgy that expose the conflicting demands of sex, love, and security among these terminally narcissistic L.A. denizens. As Nixon's victory speech drones in the background the following day and Paul Simon's mournful '60s music plays on the soundtrack, George's free-wheeling world collapses around him for reasons that he can barely begin to comprehend. Produced and co-written (with Chinatown scribe Robert Towne) by its star Warren Beatty, Shampoo became Beatty's second critical and popular success as a producer after Bonnie and Clyde, and it bolstered Hal Ashby's track record as director. Shampoo earned Grant an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a Supporting Actor nomination for Warden and Beatty's first nomination as writer. With Nixon's 1974 Watergate disgrace adding an extra edge to the humor for 1975 audiences, this tragic bedroom farce became one of the highest-grossing films in Columbia Pictures' history at the time. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

Warren Beatty - George
Julie Christie - Jackie
Goldie Hawn - Jill
Lee Grant - Felicia
Jack Warden - Lester
Carrie Fisher - Lorna
Howard Hesseman - Red Dog

1975	Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com (nominee)	Golden Globe	Warren Beatty
1975	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or C (nominee)	Golden Globe	Julie Christie
1975	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or C (nominee)	Golden Globe	Goldie Hawn
1975	Best Supporting Actress (nominee)	Golden Globe	Lee Grant
1975	Best Art Direction (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Richard Sylbert
1975	Best Art Direction (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	W. Stewart Campbell
1975	Best Art Direction (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	George P. Gaines
1975	Best Original Screenplay (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Warren Beatty
1975	Best Original Screenplay (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Robert Towne
1975	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Jack Warden
1975	Best Supporting Actress (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Lee Grant

Hal Ashby's superb '70s comedy Shampoo comes to DVD with a pair of transfers. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and is preferable in every way to the standard full-frame image. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include trailers. This Columbia/TriStar release is recommended for no other reason than that this fine film has never looked better on home video. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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