Barbershop 2: Back in Business

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Barbershop 2

Original theatrical poster for Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Produced by Robert Teitel
George Tillman, Jr.
Written by Mark Brown (characters)
Don D. Scott (screenplay)
Starring Ice Cube
Cedric the Entertainer
Sean Patrick Thomas
Eve
Release date(s) February 6, 2004
Running time 106 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English
Preceded by Barbershop
Followed by Beauty Shop
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business is an American comedy film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, produced by State Street Pictures and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on February 6, 2004. A sequel to the 2002 movie Barbershop, also from State Street producing team Robert Teitel and George Tillman, Jr., Barbershop 2 deals with the impact of gentrification on the reputation and livelihood of a long-standing south Chicago barbershop.

Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, and several other actors reprise their roles from the first Barbershop film. Barbershop 2 also features what is billed as a "special appearance" by Queen Latifah, who starred in a spin-off, Beauty Shop which was released by MGM in early 2005.

Tagline: Back in Business

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[edit] Plot

Calvin Palmer, Jr. (Ice Cube) has finally settled comfortably into his role as the owner of the inner city barbershop founded by his grandfather. The shop's latest threat comes from overzealous developer Quentin Leroux (played by Harry J. Lennix) who opens a rival barbershop across the street, Nappy Cutz.

While Calvin attempts to figure out how to deal with the coming threat of direct competition from Quentin's flashy establishment, his barbers have issues of their own. Terri (Eve) is finding success in managing her anger, but not in dealing with her attraction to Ricky (Michael Ealy). Isaac (Troy Garity), the lone white barber, is now the star of the shop, and begins to feel that he deserves star treatment. Jimmy (Sean Patrick Thomas) has quit the shop to work for the local alderman (Robert Wisdom); his replacement, Calvin's cousin-by-marriage Kenard (Kenan Thompson), is fresh out of barber school and horribly inept at cutting hair. With the barbershop and other businesses like it under threat from gentrification, Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) reminisces several times to his time as a young man in the late 1960s, when he first started working at the shop.

After attempting to change his own barbershop's style and decor to match those of his rival's, Calvin speaks out against the neighborhood's gentrification at the local city council meeting in an attempt to stop the changes in their neighborhood. Unfortunately the council doesn't change their mind and continues the project. But in the end, old customers still come to Calvin's barbershop and remain loyal to the old school style.

[edit] Cast

Character, Gina was given a spin-off movie, Beauty Shop. The character of Gina was given a last name, Norris. Gina's niece and family was also introduced in the movie. Gina also moved from Chicago to Atlanta, GA when her daughter Vanessa was accepted into a music school.

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Preceded by
You Got Served		 Box office number-one films of 2004 (USA)
February 8, 2004		 Succeeded by
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