The Salon (2007)

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Rating: PG-13

Release Date: May 11, 2007

Running Time: 92 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue English

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Vivica A. Fox, Dondré Whitfield, Darrin DeWitt Henson, Kym Whitley, Brooke Burns, Greg Germann, Terrence Howard, De'angelo Wilson, Taral Hicks, Monica Calhoun

director: Mark Brown

Jenny is being forced to sell her shop to the Department of Water and Power (DWP) due to eminent domain, and is being pressured into accepting the money they've offered for her property. Regardless of the legal advice Jenny receives, she refuses to let the corporate giant take the one remaining pillar of her inner city neighborhood. She declines the money and decides to take on the DWP in court, all the while keeping the battle hidden from her outrageous employees and clientele.

The whole raison d'etre for The Salon doesn't work. This is a hair don't.

Story

Boy, just when you thought they'd milked the hair salon genre to the bone (to mix metaphors), here comes another one. Jenny (Vivica A. Fox) has to save her family business from government plans to replace it with a parking lot. While fighting the power, her employees converse with clients about controversial topics like interracial dating, gay rights and Halle Berry's Oscar. Jenny romances a city lawyer and…