 | "Mum! Dad's cutting!" |
Once upon a time . . . hairdressers Phil (Alan Rickman) and Shelley (Natasha Richardson) Allen and their hair model Sandra (Rachel Griffiths) battled it out at hair design competitions. But that was long ago and ended when the marriage and their business broke up because Shelley and Sandra became romantically involved.
Now Shelley runs her styling shop with Sandra and Phil runs his barber shop with their son Brian (Josh Hartnett) in the same small English town of Keighley. Shelley and Phil haven't spoken to each other for 10 years, since the breakup, and Shelley has just discovered that her cancer has metastisized.
When Keighley wins the bid to host the spectacular annual British Hairdressing Championship, Phil's old nemesis Ray Robertson (the delightfully evil Bill Nighy) comes to town and baits Phil to drop the barber shears and return to styling for one last time in this competition to prove which one of them is really the best.
Phil resists but Brian urges him to give it a go if Phil can put together a team of stylists and their own hair model.
Can Shelley and Phil drop their distance and come together for their son? Will Sandra resume her part of the team as the hair model? Will Brian escalate his childhood crush on Ray Robertson's daughter Christina (Rachael Leigh Cook)?
Wild times ensue and one wonders if they can pull it off despite the challenges in this charming comedy about love and family and acceptence directed by Paddy Breathnach.
Model Heidi Klumm appears as a hair model. Also appearing are Rosemary Harris and Hugh Bonneville.
Rated R for some language and brief nudity.
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