6.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Shampoo (1975)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
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
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
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 main cast, consistent with traditional casting practices for its era and setting, without explicit race or gender swaps. The narrative focuses on character flaws and social satire within an affluent community, rather than offering a critical portrayal of traditional identities or centering on explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
Shampoo subtly hints at a character's potential same-sex affair as a source of marital tension, but this aspect remains largely in the background. The film neither explicitly affirms nor denigrates LGBTQ+ identity, treating it as an incidental, unexamined element within its broader exploration of heterosexual relationships and the sexual mores of the late 1960s.
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
7.4
6.5
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