| | | From the Creator of Two Can Play That Game.|"She's Making a Move in Life, and She's Doing it in Style."
Features: DVD, Widescreen, English, Spanish, Subtitled, Sensormatic
From writer/director Mark Brown (Barbershop), comes a hilarious romantic comedy about a businesswoman who dares to weave her dreams into reality. Starring Vivica A. Fox, The Salon delivers its fast-paced and funny storyline with a whole new style! If Jenny (Fox) is shocked to learn that the Department of Water and Power plans to tear down her hair salon, it's nothing compared to her shock at meeting their drop-dead gorgeous attorney, Michael (Darrin Dewitt Henson of TV's Soul Food). With the fate of her business stake, Jenny has to choose between fighting this man...or falling for him. Also featuring Terrence Howard (Ray, Crash), The Salon is the perfect accessory for any DVD collection!
"...the film's feisty cast and generally sunny outlook make for warm and reassuring comfort viewing..." Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide
"...Fox and company manage to bring things to life." Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Editor's Note
At the epicenter of the neighborhood is Jenny's beauty salon, where women flock to get made over and to feel at home. For owner Jenny (Vivica A. Fox) and her loyal patrons, it's more than just a business; it's a community fixture. But all this quickly comes under threat when a good-looking businessman arrives at the salon to warn Jenny of corporate sharks driving out local shops. While deeply protective of her salon, Jenny faces a predicament when she finds herself attracted to the man relaying the message.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 1/8/2008 |
| Running Time: 99 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 2257777 | | UPC: 00024543405542 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | The Village Voice 6 of 10
"What makes a beauty shop so great is that it really is a microcosm of society," intones an earnest voiceover at the beginning of The Salon. Indeed. The denizens of this eponymous inner-city beauty shop, helmed by Vivica A. Fox, are a panoply of multicultural stereotypes, from a fat black woman who scarfs doughnuts, to a flamboyant (but secretly insecure!) gay man, to a Chinese manicurist whose mispronunciation of the word "election" is just hilarious. Most cringe-inducing of all is the token white chick who insists on initiating a discussion about spanking, "or whoopin', as you guys call it." Or maybe it's the "'hos" who are sporadically chased across the screen by their pimp...Only a heady cocktail of apathy and boredom could explain so many gratuitous girlfriends and sistas. Writer-director Mark Brown, he of the Barbershop franchise, also has an inexplicable fondness for close-ups that cut off the tops of the actors' heads--unfortunate in a movie about hair. - Julia Wallace
The Onion A.V. Club 5 of 10
As annoying as brain-dead comedies like Norbit or Dirty Love can be, at least they're up-front about insulting viewers' intelligence--or assuming there's none to insult. In a way, "serious" fare like Mark Brown's long-shelved 2005 feature The Salon is worse, because it's so sanctimonious and sincere in its pandering. Even as it relentlessly talks down to its audience, it seems to want to believe that it's lifting them up...In a wafer-thin plot "inspired by" Shelley Garrett's play Beauty Shop, Vivica A. Fox stars as the saintly proprietor of a run-down Baltimore hair salon endangered by a city plan for a new parking lot. While she alternately sulks over and cuddles up to sexy city lawyer Darrin Dewitt Henson, who might offer help--and, could it be, romance?--her impossibly large staff spends one shapeless day sniping and snickering over burning topics like Halle Berry's Oscar, all the things their mommas whupped them with, and of course, those crazy white folks. They also turn every event on the street into an excuse for a didactic, ridiculously artificial monologue...Writer-director Mark Brown (writer-producer of Barbershop and Barbershop 2) mostly just observes the stylists being playfully bitchy, which might have made for a pleasant slice-of-life film if not for leaden dialogue, terrible jokes (an Asian manicurist is introduced solely to brag that she's now an "Amelican" who votes on "erection day"), horrible stereotypes (from loudmouth street hos to painfully white interlopers to Wilson's squealing pansy to Kym Whitley as a sassy big momma) and endless reaction shots, in which every speech is met by an extensive chorus of "Keep it real!" and "Tell the truth!", or alternately, "Girlfriend did not go there!" At least Norbit tried to come up with fresh new awfulness instead of idling in these familiar old ruts. - Tasha Robinson
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