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Features: Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, English, Subtitled
Barbershop is a comedy about a day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin (Ice Cube), who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.Calvin's barbershop is filled with an eclectic and hilarious cast of characters that share their stories, jokes, trials and tribulations. In the shop we find Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), an old barber with strong opinions and no customers. Jimmy (Sean Patrick Thomas) is a highly educated barber with a superiority complex who can't stand Isaac (Troy Garity), the new, white barber who just wants a shot at cutting some hair. Ricky is an ex-con with two strikes against him and is desperately trying to stay straight. Terri (rap star Eve, making her feature film debut) is a hard-edged woman who can't seem to leave her two-timing boyfriend. And lastly there's Dinka, a fellow barber who is madly in love with Terri but doesn't get the time of day. Ice Cube leads an all-star cast, including Anthony Anderson, in a touching comedy about one day in and around the barbershop.
"...the film delivers a solid mixture of sweetness and laughs." Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter.com
"Towers head and hairpiece above much of what passes for urban comedy these days." Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle
Editor's Note
Tim Story's BARBERSHOP is a lighthearted, crowd-pleasing romp that takes place over the course of one day in and around a south side Chicago barbershop. The owner of the struggling establishment, Calvin (Ice Cube), presides over his raucous staff like his father and grandfather did before him. There's the aging, politically incorrect Eddie (a show-stealing Cedric the Entertainer), the pretentious Jimmy (Sean Patrick Thomas), the ex-con Ricky (Michael Ealy), the fiery Terri (Eve), the white, unappreciated Isaac (Troy Garity), and the poetry-loving Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze). As the local police search for the criminals who stole an ATM from the deli across the street (the hysterically pathetic Anthony Anderson and Lahmard Tate), Calvin contemplates selling the barbershop to a menacing loan shark (Keith David). When it appears that a deal has been made, Calvin realizes the error of his ways and tries to rectify the situation before it's too late. With BARBERSHOP, Ice Cube is well on his way to establishing another cinematic franchise (following in the steps of the FRIDAY series). Using the universally identifiable backdrop of a barbershop, the film bounces between drama and action and comedy with easy assurance. If ever there was a film that deserved a sequel, this is it.
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 9/27/2005 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 100436 | | UPC: 00027616121288 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Anthony Anderson | | Cedric the Entertainer | | Eve | | Ice Cube | | John Carter - Editor | | Mark Brown - Story By | | Mark Brown, et. al. - Screenplay | | Mark Brown, et. al. - Producer | | Matt Alvarez, et. al. - Executive Producer | | Roger G. Fortune - Production Designer | | Terence Blanchard, et. al. - Original Music By | | Tim Story - Director | | Tom Priestley, et. al. - Cinematographer |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...BARBERSHOP is a warm, generous comedy....The movie's quiet affirmation of neighborhood values gives it an honest, lived-in glow..." 09/13/2002 p.E10Los Angeles Times
"...BARBERSHOP is as warm as it is wise, deftly setting off uproarious humor with an underlying seriousness that sneaks up on the viewer....A lively and endearing cast is headed by Ice Cube, in an impressively understated performance..." 09/13/2002 p.C12 USA Today
"..Genial....[Ice Cube] is the emotional center of the movie..." 09/13/2002 p.12D Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] reassuring, retro uplifter..." 09/20/2002 p.75 Rolling Stone
"...Ice Cube is appealing..." 10/03/2002 p.113 Variety
"A rousing celebration of the family-run small business....[The film] provides a springboard for high-voltage comic exchanges that double as wisecrack-coated lessons in community relations..." 08/19/2002 p.39 Sight and Sound
"...[Cedric's] comic timing is beautiful....A breakthrough for director Tim Story..." 02/01/2003 p.38-9 Total Film
"...The acting's superb, particularly from 39-year-old comedian Cedric the Entertainer..." 11/01/2003 p.113 The New York Times 7 of 10
The comic caricatures are at times a bit tired and schematic, and there are a few too many conflicts to be satisfyingly resolved in the course of a single day. But the familiarity of many of the jokes and conceits Ñ the white boy who wants to be black; the continuing debate between him, the ex-con and the college boy over what authentic blackness means Ñ are part of the spirit of the movie, whose roots seem to be in the raucous, heart-tugging tradition of popular African-American traveling theater. - A.O. Scott
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
The film is ungainly in construction but graceful in delivery. I could have done without both of the subplots--the loan shark and the ATM thieves--and simply sat there in Calvin's Barbershop for the entire running time, listening to these guys talk. There is a kind of music to their conversations, now a lullaby, now a march, now a requiem, now hip-hop, and they play with one another like members of an orchestra. The movie's so good to listen to, it would even work as an audio book. - Roger Ebert
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