Barbershop
Directed by	Tim Story
Written by	Mark Brown (also story) Don D. Scott Marshall Todd
Starring	Ice Cube Anthony Anderson Eve Sean Patrick Thomas Michael Ealy Troy Garity Leonard Earl Howze Keith David and Cedric the Entertainer
Produced by	George Tillman, Jr. Robert Teitel
Distributed by	MGM
Release date	September 13, 2002
Runtime	102 min
Language	English
Budget	$12 million (est)
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Barbershop is a motion picture directed by Tim Story, produced by State Street Pictures, and released by MGM on September 13, 2002. Starring Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, and Anthony Anderson, the movie revolves about social life in a south Chicago barbershop that has become a neighborhood institution. Notable for being one of the most successful movies ever to have been directed by an African American, Barbershop also proved to be a star-making vehicle for acting newcomers Eve and Michael Ealy, and provided Ice Cube with a character different from the tough thugs he was so often called upon to portray in movies. Image File history File links Barbershop_posta. ... Timothy Kevin Story (born March 13, 1970) is an American film director. ... For Mark Brown, NASA astronaut, go to Mark N. Brown For Mark Brown, bassist of Princes Revolution, go to Brownmark For Mark Malloch Brown, United Nations staffer, go to Mark Malloch Brown This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... Ice Cube Ice Cube (born OShea Jackson on June 15, 1969) is an African American actor and rapper, originally a member of the controversial group N.W.A (Niggaz With Attitude) until launching a successful solo career in music and cinema. ... Anthony Anderson (born August 15, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American comedian and actor. ... The cover of Eves 2001 LP, Scorpion Eve (born Eve Jihan Jeffers on November 10, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African-American rapper, singer, and actress associated with the Ruff Ryders crew. ... Sean Patrick Thomas (born December 17, 1970 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a Guyanese-American actor. ... Michael Ealy (born Michael Brown on August 3, 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an black actor. ... Troy Garity (born Troi O. Hayden on July 7, 1973) is an American film actor. ... Keith David - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Cedric the Entertainer (born Cedric Kyles, April 24, 1964 in Jefferson City, Missouri) is an African American actor and comedian. ... George Tillman, Jr. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Timothy Kevin Story (born March 13, 1970) is an American film director. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ice Cube Ice Cube (born OShea Jackson on June 15, 1969) is an African American actor and rapper, originally a member of the controversial group N.W.A (Niggaz With Attitude) until launching a successful solo career in music and cinema. ... Cedric the Entertainer (born Cedric Kyles, April 24, 1964 in Jefferson City, Missouri) is an African American actor and comedian. ... Anthony Anderson (born August 15, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American comedian and actor. ... ... For other uses of the word, see the Barber disambiguation page. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... The cover of Eves 2001 LP, Scorpion Eve (born Eve Jihan Jeffers on November 10, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African-American rapper, singer, and actress associated with the Ruff Ryders crew. ... Michael Ealy (born Michael Brown on August 3, 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an black actor. ...

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Synopsis

On a cold winter Saturday in south-side Chicago, Calvin Palmer, Jr. (Ice Cube) decides he's had enough of trying to keep open the barbershop his father handed down to him. He can't borrow enough money to keep the place open, it's not bringing in enough revenue, and he's more intersted in coming up with get-rich-quick schemes to bring in easy money. Without telling his employees or the customers, Calvin sells his barbershop to a greedy loan shark named Lester Wallace (Keith David), who promptly makes plans to turn the place into a strip club. Keith David - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A striptease is a performance, usually a dance, in which the performer gradually removes their clothing for the purposes of sexually arousing the audience, usually performed in nightclubs. ...

After spending a day at work and realizing just how vital the barbershop is to the surrounding community, Calvin rethinks his decision and tries to get his shop back...only to find out Wallace wants double the $20,000 he paid Calvin to give the shop back, and before 7 P.M. Now Calvin has only a scant few hours to try and raise enough money to save the shop. USD redirects here. ...

Cast and Characters

Barbers

• Calvin Palmer, Jr. (Ice Cube): a young expectant father, who feels like the barbershop his father left him to manage is causing undue complications in his life.
• Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer): a 60-plus year old barber who strangely never cuts any hair. He worked under Calvin's father, and constantly compares and contrasts both Palmers and the periods they lived in.
• Jimmy James (Sean Patrick Thomas): a recent college graduate who sees his job at the barbershop as nothing more than a temporary stop on his way to a "real" job.
• Terri Jones (Eve): a temperamental young woman with a cheating boyfriend, who accuses Jimmy of drinking her apple juice. She is the only female barber in the shop.
• Issac Rosenberg (Troy Garity): the only Caucasian barber (or person) in the shop, Issac is the recipient of bigoted language and behavior from some of the other characters, especially his nemesis, Jimmy.
• Ricky Nash (Michael Ealy): A two-time loser who is trying to go straight by working in the barbershop.
• Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze): An immigrant from Nigeria, Dinka is the butt of many jokes based on his African nationality. He has an unrequited crush on Terri.

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ATM thieves

• J.D. (Anthony Anderson): A would-be thief who attempts to steal an ATM and spends the duration of the film trying to find a way to pry it open.
• Billy (Lahmard Tate): J.D.'s accomplice in the ATM theft.

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Other characters

• Jennifer Palmer (Jazmin Lewis): Calvin's seven-months-pregnant wife, who first met Calvin in the barbershop. She reminds him a number of times about the cultural and historical significance of the shop and why he should not sell it.
• Lester Wallace (Keith David): A crafty loan shark who buys Calvin's shop for $20,000 and plans to turn it into a strip club. After selling the shop, Calvin spends the rest of the film trying to figure out a way to raise the money to buy it back, as Lester raises the price to $40,000 after he has control of the shop.
• Ray-Ray (DeRay Davis): a hustler who constantly barges into the shop trying to sell stolen goods; everything from CDs to dogs to Pampers.
• Sam the Customer (Norm Van Lier): Former Chicago Bulls player "Stormin'" Norman Van Lier plays Sam, who enters the shop to collect donations to buy shoes for a young basketball player named Johnny Brown, who hopes to be recruited.

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Production

Produced on a budget of only $12 million, Barbershop, with a story by Mark Brown and a screenplay by Brown, Marshall Todd, and Don D. Scott, was filmed in Chicago during the winter of 2002. The filmmakers used a storefront that was once a laundromat to build the set for Calvin's barbershop, and the set was duplicated on a soundstage to make filming certain scenes easier. Similar to what he achieved with his 1997 film Soul Food, producer George Tillman, Jr. wanted to portray African Americans in a more positive and three-dimensional light than many other Hollywood films had in the past. For Mark Brown, NASA astronaut, go to Mark N. Brown For Mark Brown, bassist of Princes Revolution, go to Brownmark For Mark Malloch Brown, United Nations staffer, go to Mark Malloch Brown This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A laundromat (U.S.), launderette (British), Washette (Southeastern U.S.) or washateria (Southwestern U.S.) is a store where clothes are washed and dried. ... A sound stage is a hangar-like structure, building or room, that is soundproof for the production of theatrical motion pictures and television, usually inside a movie studio. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Soul food is an ethnic cuisine, food traditionally eaten by African Americans of the Southern United States. ... George Tillman, Jr. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

Subjects discussed in the barbershop

A pivotal scene from Barbershop: Calvin (left), Ricky (middle), Isaac (back turned), and the other barbers and patrons at the shop listen as Eddie (standing), gives his controversial commentary on Rosa Parks' significance to the Civil Rights Movement.

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• The significance of Rosa Parks' contribution to the Civil Rights Movement. In a sequence the filmmakers hold up as the film's centerpiece, Eddie loudly (but correctly) points out that Parks was not the only (or even the first) Black person to protest the segregated bus seating system prevalent in many metropolitan areas. Checkers Fred tells Eddie that he "better not ever let Jesse Jackson hear you talking like this," to which Eddie responds "Man, fuck Jesse Jackson!" When Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton heard about this scene, they started a boycott campaign against the film, and called upon MGM and State Street Pictures to edit the offending sequence out of the film before it reached home video and TV. The film was released on home video in January 2003, with the Parks discussion intact.
• Arizona citizens' initial refusal to recognize Martin Luther King Day as an official holiday in 1993, and Martin Luther King, Jr's infidelity. Jackson and Sharpton also wanted the King reference deleted from the movie, but, like the Rosa Parks sequence, it was not.
• Whether Black people need (or deserve) reparations.
• White people who act "Black" (Issac) and Black people who act "White" (Jimmy).
• Whether or not being educated makes a Black person "better" than everyone else.
• The generation gap.
• Evander Holyfield, Christianity, and Jesus' religion.
• A woman's ideal figure, using Jennifer Lopez and Mother Love as contrasting examples.
• Whether or not a scallop is a shellfish.

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Sequels and spin-offs

Calvin cutting a customer's hair.

In 2004, MGM released the sequel Barbershop 2: Back in Business. All of the original cast returned, but Tim Story did not; this movie was directed by Keith Rodney Sullivan. The same year, Billie Woodruff directed a spin-off film entitled Beauty Shop, with Queen Latifah as the lead (Latifah's character made her debut in Barbershop 2). Beauty Shop, pushed back from a late summer 2004 release, finally reached theatres in February 2005. Image File history File links Ice-cube-barbershop. ... Image File history File links Ice-cube-barbershop. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ... Barbershop 2: Back in Business is a 2004 comedy film sequel to 2002s Barbershop, from the writing/producing team Robert Teitel and George Tillman Jr. ... Timothy Kevin Story (born March 13, 1970) is an African-American film director. ... Bille Woodruff is a film and music video director, noted for his films Honey, starring Jessica Alba, and Beauty Shop, starring Queen Latifah. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Promotional poster for Beauty Shop This article is about Beauty Shop, the movie. ... Queen Latifah arriving at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Ongoing events • Iraqi legislative election • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • Tsunami relief Upcoming events • March 11: Red Nose Day 2005 in the UK. Deaths in February • 26 – Jef Raskin • 25 – Hugh Nibley • 25 – Peter Benenson • 21...

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External links

• Barbershop at the Internet Movie Database