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Opening Wednesday: Once again, let your hair down
By STEVE PERSALL
Published March 24, 2005
Right next door to Barbershop, comedically speaking, is Beauty Shop (PG-13), in which Queen Latifah reprises the role created for Barbershop 2: Back in Business solely to set up this movie. When Ice Cube's sequel opened last year, a preview with Latifah plugging Beauty Shop was attached before a single frame of the movie had been filmed.
Latifah plays Gina Norris, a stylist relocated from Chicago to Atlanta, where she opens her own salon after a disagreement with her prissy Eurotrash boss (Kevin Bacon). It's a new town with a different clientele, but haircuts are still an excuse for a variety of colorful characters to hang around the beauty shop and crack jokes all day.
The film co-stars Alicia Silverstone as Gina's cosmetic protege, Mena Suvari as a stylist with hip-hop sensibilities, and Andie MacDowell as a wealthy client Gina steals from her former employer. Now that she's an Oscar nominee (Chicago) and a fashion icon for plus-size women, Latifah even gets a boy toy to romance, a hunky electrician (Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou, In America).
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