Barbershop is a motion picture directed by Tim Story, produced by George Tillman, Jr.'s State Street Pictures, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 13, 2002. Starring Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, and Anthony Anderson, the film 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 films. 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... Timothy Kevin Story (born March 13, 1970) is an American film director. ... 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 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ice Cube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 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 African American comedian and actor. ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ... 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 August 3, 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an African American actor. ...

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 heads. 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 Rosenburg (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.

J.D. and Billy's antics are reminiscent of those of Laurel and Hardy, and two sequences in which they have to carry the heavy ATM up a long flight of stairs recalls Laurel and Hardy's Academy Award-winning short film, The Music Box (1932). Anthony Anderson (born August 15, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an African American comedian and actor. ... Outdoor ATMs may be free-standing, like this kiosk, or built into the side of banks or other buildings An automatic teller machine or automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic device that allows a banks customers to make cash withdrawals and check their account balances without the need... Laurel and Hardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are probably the most famous comedy duo in film history. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... The Music Box is a 1932 three_reel (thirty minute) short subject, produced by Hal Roach, directed by James Parrott, and released to theatres by Metro_Goldwyn_Mayer as part of the Laurel and Hardy series. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...

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.
• 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 movie trying to figure out a way to raise the money to buy it back, as Lester raises the prise 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.

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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 movie Soul Food, producer George Tillman, Jr wanted to portray African Americans in a more positive and three-dimensional light than many other Hollywood movies 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 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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 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. ... 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

Like many African American (and Hispanic) barbershops, serious and lively conversation is more important than haircuts in Calvin's barbershop, and the characters in the movie candidly discuss many topics; some trivial, some serious. Hispanic, as used in the United States, is one of several terms used to categorize U.S. immigrants for whose background hail either from Spain, the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America or the original settlers of the traditionally Spanish-held Southwestern United States. ...

• The significance of Rosa Parks' contribution to the Civil Rights Movement. In a sequence the filmmakers hold up as the movie'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 movie, and called upon MGM and State Street Pictures to edit the offending sequence out of the movie before it reached home video and TV. The movie 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 or not 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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External links

• Barbershop at the Internet Movie Database