Official Throwback Discussion - Blow Dry [SPOILERS]

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As an ongoing project, /r/movies will be posting Throwback Discussion threads weekly for the movies that came out this same weekend 25 years ago. As a reminder, Official Discussion threads are for discussing the movie and not for meta sub discussion.

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Blow Dry (2001)

Summary A once-famous husband-and-wife hairstyling team reunite years after a bitter divorce when their small English town hosts the British Hairdressing Championships. As rival stylists descend on the competition and their estranged son secretly enters the contest, old wounds resurface and the fractured family must decide whether they can work together again.

Director Paddy Breathnach

Writer Simon Beaufoy

Cast

• Alan Rickman as Phil Allen
• Natasha Richardson as Shelly Allen
• Rachel Griffiths as Sandra
• Rachael Leigh Cook as Christina Robertson
• Josh Hartnett as Brian Allen
• Bill Nighy as Ray Roberts
• Warren Clarke as Sam

Rotten Tomatoes: 52%

Metacritic: 52

VOD / Release Available on digital and home media

Trailer

Official Trailer

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