Black Shampoo
He's bad…he's mean…he's a lovin' machine!
A blaxploitation-era action-comedy that blends sexual bravado, mobster violence, and romantic entanglement with a light, irreverent tone.
A promiscuous Black hairstylist has sex with his white female clientele, but when he begins a relationship with his Black secretary, her white mobster ex-boyfriend resorts to violent measures to get her back.
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