Barbershop
Barbershop is a 2002 American comedy-drama film and the first installment in the Barbershop series directed by Tim Story and written by Mark Brown, Don D. Scott and Marshall Todd, from a story by Brown. It was produced by George Tillman Jr., Robert Teitel and Brown. The film stars Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Troy Garity, Michael Ealy, Leonard Earl Howze, Keith David and Cedric the Entertainer. Its plot revolves around the social life in a barbershop on the South Side of Chicago.
Plot
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Calvin Palmer Jr. (Ice Cube) decides he has had enough of trying to keep open the barbershop his father handed down to him. He cannot borrow, revenues are falling, and he seems more interested in get-rich-quick schemes to bring in easy money. Without telling his employees or the customers, he sells the barbershop to a greedy loan shark, Lester Wallace (Keith David), who secretly plans to turn it into a strip club.
More details
| author | Mark Brown |
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| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | Tim Story |
| editor | John Carter |
| genre | comedy-drama social |
| keywords | atm automated teller machine baby boy barber barber shop chicago river drive easy money end fall get-rich-quick scheme jazsmin lewis loan shark pickup truck strip club striptease third strike |
| musicBy | Terence Blanchard |
| producer | George Tillman Jr. Mark Brown Robert Teitel |
| productionCompany | Cube Vision Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures State Street Pictures |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox MGM Distribution Co. |
| recordedAt | Chicago |
| theme | race and ethnicity |