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1975 · FILM

Shampoo

A charismatic, womanizing hairdresser navigates a chaotic web of love, betrayal, and political tension on Election Day 1968, as his personal indiscretions collide with the shifting social landscape of the late 1960s.

Your hairdresser does it better.

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Runtime
110 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

On Election Day, 1968, George Roundy, an irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man, is preoccupied with cutting hair and managing his relationships with his girlfriends and his mistress, Felicia Karpf. Felicia's husband, Lester, is having an affair with Jackie, George's ex-girlfriend.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert C JonesShot by Laszlo KovacsScored by Paul SimonDesigned by Richard Sylbert

Box Office

1975 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 15× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$60.0M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$60.0M
break-even (2.5×)

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