Good Hair

Name: Good Hair
Genre: Comedy, Documentary
Released: October 9, 2009
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Maya Angelou

2009

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Roadside Attractions | Release Date: October 9, 2009 | PG-13

Starring: Maya Angelou

Summary: An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore how hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks and self-esteem of the black community. (Roadside Attractions)

Director: Jeff Stilson

Genre(s): Comedy, Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 96 min

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Claudia Puig

Good Hair is cause for hope that Rock continues to make documentaries. His style is lively, smooth and up-to-date, like the most coveted 'do. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Is it possible to talk about the fascinating and complex universe of black hair without dealing with race and identity? That’s the question posed by Good Hair. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

One of those rare documentaries that works on two seemingly incongruous levels at once: It's both social commentary and pure delight. Read full review

Wesley Morris

There’s a lot of Michael Moore’s ambulatory spirit in this film, which the comedian Jeff Stinson directed. There’s also a lot of the damning comedic commentary that made Rock’s old HBO series so urgent. Read full review

Stephen Cole

Good Hair is also about how African-Americans spend $9-billion annually chemically treating and straightening their hair, buying 80 per cent of America's hair products. It's such a fascinating, complex tale that you hope one day some probing filmmaker will make a conclusive documentary on the subject. Read full review

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An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

A slipshod documentary about a fascinating subject: the loaded history and current complications of African-American hairstyling. Read full review

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Scalabrine21

Oct 15, 2009

There are very few non-ficition based movies available for viewing in theaters, that are humorous, clever, amusing, educational, insightful, at times unsettling, and overall worth every penny of the $10 you spent. This is one of those movies. I am a caucasian male and I loved every minute There are very few non-ficition based movies available for viewing in theaters, that are humorous, clever, amusing, educational, insightful, at times unsettling, and overall worth every penny of the $10 you spent. This is one of those movies. I am a caucasian male and I loved every minute of this movie. Chris Rock is headed for a wonderful career in documentaries if he chooses to do so, because when you can make a feature film an hour and a half long that a studio believes will make a profit on just hair, you are doing something right! Sitting there, I felt like I was allowed into a secret society of not only hair care, but also one's identity, one's fears, and an entire cultural perception of how beauty is viewed and the lengths one goes through to attain the standard of beauty the world has established. You will leave this movie feeling both touched and informed, and honestly will never look at the hair on your head (or on other's heads) in the same way. Documentary of the year for Chris Rock. Not because he's Chris Rock. But because he chose a topic that's been evident for centuries but never truly been discussed to this length.… Expand