6.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Shampoo (1975)
Shampoo (1975)
Overview
A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to gather the money to open his own salon are continually side-tracked by the distractions presented by his many lovers.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Viewer Rating
6.6
Overview
A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to gather the money to open his own salon are continually side-tracked by the distractions presented by his many lovers.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film offers a nuanced social satire on personal relationships, infidelity, and superficiality within a privileged class, observing the consequences of hedonism without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology or solution.
The movie features a predominantly white cast, reflecting traditional casting practices of its time without any explicit race or gender swaps. Its narrative explores personal relationships and social dynamics without engaging with DEI themes or offering a critical portrayal of traditional identities.
Secondary
The film includes an implied homosexual relationship for a supporting character, Johnny Pope, which is revealed as an incidental detail during a marital argument. This portrayal is neither overtly positive nor negative, serving primarily to illustrate the complex sexual dynamics and hypocrisy among the characters without further exploration or judgment.
The film 'Shampoo' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative is exclusively focused on heterosexual relationships and social commentary within 1960s Beverly Hills, offering no portrayal relevant to this evaluation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Shampoo is an original screenplay from 1975, not an adaptation of pre-existing material or a biopic. All characters were created for this film, meaning there is no prior canonical or historical gender to be swapped.
Shampoo (1975) is an original film with characters created specifically for this production. There are no pre-existing source materials or historical figures whose established race could be altered, therefore no race swaps occurred.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.4
6.0
Critic Ratings
7.5
6.5
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