# Movies with a Barber Shop scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636 "2005-07-08T19:14:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/1 "2005-07-08T19:14:06Z")
I recently saw two movies with barber shop scenes and my brain started spinning that way. Men’s barber shops. Can you name any movies with memorable barber shop scenes? Haircut or shave, I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/2 "2005-07-08T19:18:20Z")
I haven’t seen it, but I’m guessing Barbershop has a few. Maybe. Coming to America had a good barber bit; Undercover Brother also. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/3 "2005-07-08T19:18:20Z")
**Barbershop** and **Barbershop 2** both had barber shop scenes as memory serves. My favorites include the _My-T-Sharp_ scenes in **Coming to America** and the opening scene of **The Untouchables** (in which Capone is receiving a shave from a very nervous barber while conducting a press interview). And while not set in a barber shop, I loved the transformation scene in **Cat Ballou** in which Kid Shelleen (played by Lee Marvin) goes from derelict fat drunken joke to slick and polished deadeye gunslinger (courtesy in part of a very hot bath and shave scene). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/4 "2005-07-08T19:22:22Z")
The second **Brady Bunch** movie had a funny style shop scene (Carol’s makeover). Charlie Chaplin’s Jewish barber in **The Great Dictator** (the antithesis of his lookalike, the title character) had several scenes in his shop. While not set in a barbershop, but _The Color Purple_ had a pretty damned memorable shave scene. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/5 "2005-07-08T19:30:48Z")
**Me, Myself and Irene** has a two-part barbershop scene. In part 1, the cop Charlie (Jim Carrey) goes into the shop to tell a guy that he needs to move his car, but is sidetracked when a bunch of guys see a woman with huge tits nursing a baby out the window and start ogling her. When Charlie says, “take it easy, guys, she’s a mom,” everyone makes fun of him. Then, to add insult to injury, the guy tosses Charlie the keys and asks HIM to move his car (and the passive, innefectual cop cooperates.) Then…after Charlie changes into “Hank,” and goes on a rampage through the town getting even with all the people who’ve pissed him off, he gets into the guy’s car and crashes it through the window of the barbershop. A very funny scene. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/6 "2005-07-08T19:31:53Z")
Ooh! Ooh! I’ve got one – **The Great Ziegfeld** has a scene where William Powell (as Florence Ziegfeld) is getting his hair cut while three men are discussing how washed up he is. He’s so upset by this he leaves without his tie. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/7 "2005-07-08T19:37:39Z")
The sadly overlooked **I Wanna Hold Your Hand** has a great scene in which a young boy is about to lose his Beatle haircut at the hands of a terrifying-looking barber (played, IIRC, by one of the film crew, and the eyepatch is real). ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/8 "2005-07-08T19:44:25Z")
The various film adaptations of _Sweeney Todd_. Y’know… the demon barber of Fleet Street. ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/9 "2005-07-08T19:48:12Z")
I’m guessing but don’t most “boot camp” movies, whether comedy or drama, show the young men losing their hair? ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/10 "2005-07-08T19:57:06Z")
> [@Papermache Prince](#): > > I’m guessing but don’t most “boot camp” movies, whether comedy or drama, show the young men losing their hair? **Full Metal Jacket** and **Tribes** (with Jan Michael Vincent) probably do. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/11 "2005-07-08T20:04:36Z")
There are several very good scenes in the Coen brothers’ _The Man Who Wasn’t There_ that are set in the barber shop where the main character works, including this dialogue (courtesy of IMDB): Ed: Frank. Frank: Huh? Ed: This hair. Frank: Yeah. Ed: You ever wonder about it? Frank: Whuddya mean? Ed: I don’t know… How it keeps on coming. It just keeps growing. Frank: Yeah-lucky for us, huh, pal? Ed: No, I mean it’s growing, it’s part of us. And we cut it off. And we throw it away. Frank: Come on, Eddie, you’re gonna scare the kid. Ed: …I’m gonna take his hair and throw it out in the dirt. Frank: What the… Ed: I’m gonna mix it with common house dirt. Frank: What the hell are you talking about? Ed: I don’t know. Skip it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/12 "2005-07-08T20:05:19Z")
_Stripes_ and _Police Academy_ come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/13 "2005-07-08T20:14:10Z")
**Chinatown** ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/14 "2005-07-08T20:31:51Z")
The IMDB has [54 entries for “barbershop”](http://www.imdb.com/List?tv=on&&keywords=barbershop&&heading=19;barbershop) and [66 for “barber”](http://www.imdb.com/List?tv=on&&keywords=barber&&heading=19;barber). Notable ones include **Sunrise, The Gunfighter, Scarface, The Great Dictator** , and Bugs Bunny in **The Rabbit of Seville**. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/15 "2005-07-08T20:38:06Z")
**Hudsucker Proxy** ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/16 "2005-07-08T20:52:23Z")
Harpo and Chico are the last two people you want for barbers in _Monkey Business_. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/17 "2005-07-08T20:56:04Z")
Does Julie Brown’s “Brand New Girl” song in _Earth Girls Are Easy_ count? ---
**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/18 "2005-07-08T20:58:20Z")
**The Godfather II** (at least I think was II) - Moe Green gets shot in a barbershop. ---
**Author:** ![Ex\_Machina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/19 "2005-07-08T21:05:03Z")
I think Clint Eastwood shot somebody from under his clippings drop cloth in one of his westerns. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636/20 "2005-07-08T21:06:08Z")
> [@rexnervous](#): > > **The Godfather II** (at least I think was II) - Moe Green gets shot in a barbershop. Moe Green is killed in the first Godfather film, and is shot in the eye while having a massage. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-a-barber-shop-scene/311636.md?page=2)