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When Chris Rock's daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head! Director Jeff Stilson's camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture. An exposÃƒÂ© of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven SymonÃƒÂ©, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter's question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesn't always benefit the black community and little Lola's question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.

Production
Chris Rock Entertainment; HBO Films;

Cast Names
Chris Rock; Marvet Britto; A'Lelia Bundles; Farrah Fawcett; Emily Santos; Kerry Washington; Tanya Crumel; Kevin Kirk; Jason Griggers; Maya Angelou; Vanessa Bell Calloway; Eve; Melyssa Ford; Meagan Good; Andre Harrell; Ice-T; Sarah Jones; KRS-One; Lauren London; Nia Long; Paul Mooney; Salli Richardson-Whitfield; Sandra 'Pepa' Denton; Cheryl 'Salt' James; Al Sharpton; Raven-Symoné; Tracie Thoms; Faheem Najm;

Box Office
USD 4,157,104

Release Date
2009-01-18 (Sundance Film Festival)
2009-10-09 (theatrical release) (limited)

Genres
Documentary; Comedy;

MPAA Rating [?]
Rated PG-13 for some language including sex and drug references, and brief partial nudity.

Running Time
1 hr. 36 min.

Director
Jeff Stilson

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