BEAUTY SHOP

Year: 2005
USA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distribution
UK: Verve Pictures
Cast: Queen Latifah, Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Alfie Woodard, Mena Suvari, Della Reese, Golden Brooks, Miss Laura Hayes, Paige Hurd, L'il JJ, LisaRaye McCoy, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Sherri Shepherd, Kimora Lee Simmons, Rita Sheryl Underwood, Bryce Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Djimon Hounsou, Omari Hardwick, Adele Givens, Jim Holmes, Larissa Bordere, Baby, Nancy Lenehan, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Crystal Garrett, Suzanne Covington, Joyful M Drake, Tawny Dahl, Mary Wickliffe, Andrew Levitas, Octavia Spencer, Jamie McBride, Melissa Wyler, Ki Toy Johnson, Otis Best, Christopher Lane
Director: Billie Woodruff
Country: USA
UK: 105 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 on appeal for sexual material, language and brief drug references (previously rated: R in 2004)
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex references, language and drug references
USA Release Date: 1 April 2005
UK Release Date: 22 April 2005


Synopsis

Leaving the Chicago crew behind, Gina Norris (Queen Latifah) is a long way from the Barbershop - she now lives in Atlanta and is making a name for herself and her cutting-edge hairstyles at a posh Southern salon. But when her flamboyant, egotistical boss, Jorge (Kevin Bacon), takes it one criticism too far, she storms out of his salon to open a shop of her own, taking the shampoo girl (Alicia Silverstone) and a few key clients (Andie MacDowell, Mena Suvari) with her.

Gina risks it all to buy a rundown beauty shop and gets to work making it her own, inheriting an opinionated group of headstrong stylists (including Alfre Woodard, Golden Brooks, and Sherri Shepherd), a colorful clientele, and a sexy upstairs electrician (Djimon Hounsou). It's a rocky road to fulfilling her dreams - and Jorge does his best to ruin her plans - but you can't keep a good woman down...and you can't keep a shopful of outrageous women from speaking their minds! Join Gina and her stylists for a raucous good time at the Beauty Shop.