Hair Show (2004)

17% of critics liked it
(12 reviews)
71% of users liked it
(6,872 ratings)

Blood may be thicker than water, but it doesn't hold a candle to hairspray, as we learn in this urban comedy. Angela (Kellita Smith) is a successful hairdresser who operates her own salon based in Los Angeles. One day, Angela gets an unexpected visit from her sister Peaches (Mo'Nique), who runs a… More Blood may be thicker than water, but it doesn't hold a candle to hairspray, as we learn in this urban comedy. Angela (Kellita Smith) is a successful hairdresser who operates her own salon based in Los Angeles. One day, Angela gets an unexpected visit from her sister Peaches (Mo'Nique), who runs a beauty shop of her own in Baltimore. The family reunion turns out to not be as happy as Angela may have hoped -- Peaches is trying to stay a step ahead of IRS agents who want to collect 50,000 dollars in back taxes, while also avoiding Marcella (Gina Torres), a fellow hair stylist who wants to take over Peaches' shop. Despite their differences, Angela and Peaches join forces in hopes of finding a way to get the bill paid and take Marcella out of the picture. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 40 min.
Directed By: Leslie Small
Written By: Leslie Small
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Oct 15, 2004 Wide
On DVD: May 10, 2005
Studio: UrbanWorks Entertainment

Critic Reviews

Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
The story here, by Andrea Wiley, Sherri A. McGee and Devon Gregory, is slapped together with such poorly drawn stereotypes and lapses in logic as to provoke not shaking bellies but shaking heads.
Scott Foundas, Variety
An anemic sitcomsitcom pilot dragged out to an excruciating 108-minute running time.
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
The plot is slender but serviceable, and under Leslie Small's attentive direction, not only do Mo'Nique and Smith excel, but those playing salon staffers -- Taraji Henson, Keiko Agena, Cee Cee Michaela et al -- also make lively impressions.
Robert Dominguez, New York Daily News
A predictable urban comedy set mostly in a chichi Beverly Hills beauty salon, Hair Show is a female-oriented Barber Shop -- minus the steady humor and pointed social commentary.
Megan Lehmann, New York Post
The story is so slight, a low-wattage hair dryer could blow it away.
Ned Martel, New York Times
A Baltimore hairstylist takes refuge, and umbrage, in her buppie sister's Los Angeles salon in this sputtering star vehicle for the comedian Mo'Nique.
Kam Williams, Black Talent News
Coiffure competition at center of sibling rivalry comedy!
Kam Williams, Black Talent News
Just funny enough to recommend for fans of that BET brand of stand-up humor which incessantly appeals to the lowest common denominator.
Luke Y. Thompson, New Times
stars Mo'nique, who's both fatter and sassier than [Queen] Latifah, but alas, not a whole lot funnier.
, E! Online
This chop shop is a tad shabby.
Angel Cohn, TV Guide's Movie Guide
What this rehash desperately needs is some real style, but even an industrial-strength can of hair spray can't keep it from coming undone.
Robert Abele, L.A. Weekly
The movie feels flattened by relaxers when it should have been teased into a wicked curl.

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Cast

            Mo'Nique as Peaches

            Kellita Smith as Angela

            Gina Torres as Marcella

            David Ramsey as Cliff

            Taraji P. Henson as Tiffany

            Keiko Agena as Jun Ni

            Cee Cee Michaela as Simone

            Joe Torry as Brian

            Andre B. Blake as Gianni

            Vivica A. Fox as Herself

            James Avery as Seymour Gold

            David Haines as Police Officer #1

            Sarah Lilly as Jan (Secretary)

            Tommy 'Tiny' Lister as Agent Little

            John Salley as Himself

            Tom Virtue as Agent Scott

            Don Franklin as Basil

            Mari Morrow as Gina

            Devika Parikh as Wanda

            Niecy Nash as Debra

            Jacqueline Fleming as Margo

            Bruce Bruce as Lime Pimp

            E-40 as Cabbie

            Tami Anderson as Zora

            Melanie Comarcho as Gold-teeth Girl

            Susan Leslie as Mother #2

            Reagan Gomez-Preston as Fiona

            Serena Williams as Agent Ross

            Michelle Griffin as Mona

            Bryce Wilson as Drake

            Alex Avant as Officer Banks

            Angela Maria Dixon as Sherina

            Jamaica JaToi as Pierre

            Joyful M'Chelle as Stephanie Cole

            Annie McKnight as Noxema

            Kimberly Moss as Betty

            Neferteri Shepherd as Ria

            Adimu Colon as Rasta M.C.

            Giorgi-O as Dark Gable

            Nicole Pano as Woman Driver

            Roshumba Williams as Star

            Jerome Barnes as Comic #1

            Gary Johnson as Comic #2
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