The Salon

Inspired by Shelley Garrett’s stage play, writer-director Mark Brown (Barbershop) brings another installment to the genre of films set in African-American hair salons — this time, an inner-city beauty shop owned by Jennifer Smithe (Vivica A. Fox). The hairdressers and the female clientele waste no time sharing their thoughts on everything from sex, politics, race relations and child-rearing, with laughs coming at a fast and furious pace.