Three of New Hollywood’s most important voices (Hal Ashby, Robert Towne and Warren Beatty) come together to make this pivotal 70’s film. Beatty stars as George Roundy, a womanizing Beverly Hills hairdresser who beds his female clients while their husbands think he must be gay. His professional and personal life comes to a head on Election Day 1968. This rich satire was a long-gestating passion project for Towne, who spent eight years re-writing the script. Beatty’s energetic chemistry with his co-stars, especially real-life love Julie Christie, makes this film his. Of course, he was the producer, too, and meddled with Ashby’s direction at every turn.
“Shampoo, made in 1975 but set in 1968, the night before Richard Nixon’s election to the presidency, was directed by Hal Ashby and written by Robert Towne and Warren Beatty, who may have produced one of the best scripts in the last three decades.” – Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
Kim Morgan discusses Shampoo on the New Beverly blog.
