Good Hair PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Chris Rock | |
Directed by | Jeff Stilson | |
Screenwriting by | Chris Rock, Jeff Stilson, Lance Crouther & Chuck Sklar | |
Composition by | Marcus Miller | |
Director of Photography: | Cliff Charles | |
Hosted by | Ice-T, Nia Long, Al Sharpton, Maya Angelou, Raven-Symoné, Salt-N-Pepa & Paul Mooney |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rock sheds new light on this old story through a poignant mix of interviews, investigation and his trademark satire.
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Associated Press
Rating: 3/5 --
Despite dozens of interviews and Rock's personal agenda, this isn't the hard-hitting expose it should have been.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Though Rock's affable nature and probing comic instincts ensure the tone is always light and jocular, his discoveries are sometimes jaw-dropping...
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Scotsman
Rating: 3/5 --
It's an eye-opener, if a blatantly chauvinistic one: Rock's main beefs seem to be that men have to pay for it, and upkeep of such a coveted accessory is a barrier to intimacy in the bedroom.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Full of sweetly sardonic observations, the docu-comedy is one of the funniest movies of the year.
Denver Post
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [Rock] approaches the subject with earnest interest and easy humor....His style is lively, smooth and up-to-date, like the most coveted 'do.
USA Today
Mr Rock is one proud, if heartbroken, daddy and also a lovely, free-wheeling guide through African-American, Afro-hating hair culture.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
In the movie SCHOOL DAZE, Spike Lee staged a dance number in which two bands of African-American college students debated the merits of "Straight and Nappy" hair in song, and now comedian Chris Rock and filmmaker Jeff Stilson have extended the conversation to a full-length film in this witty documentary with serious undertones. Rock says he was inspired to make the film when his young daughter asked him, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair'" and he and Stilson examine black America's obsession with their hair as they visit the Bronner Brothers International Hair Show, an annual trade show for the African-American hair care industry which includes fierce competitions among stylists from around the country and demonstrations of new hair products and techniques. Along the way, Rock also talks to a number of African-American luminaries about their hair issues (including Maya Angelou, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Nia Long, Raven Symone, Ice-T, and Paul Mooney), researches the dangers of many common hair-straightening treatments, reveals the surprising expense of regular hair "relaxing" and weaves, and ponders what the pursuit of straight hair says about African-American cultural identity. GOOD HAIR received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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