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THE SALON

What You Need To Know:

THE SALON stars Vivica A. Fox as Jenny, a sophisticated and hard working mother in Baltimore who runs a beauty shop. Unknown to her employees, including an overtly homosexual male character, the city is trying to take over Jenny's building, which has been in her family for years, to build a parking lot. Complicating matters is the fact that Jenny is falling for the black lawyer representing the city, played by Darrin Henson. As the hairstylists bicker among each other and some of the shop's clients and visitors, Jenny has trouble trying to balance her romantic feelings with her commitment to her business, her employees and her young son.

THE SALON, a small movie based on a stage play, tries to mine territory exploited earlier by the BARBERSHOP movies and BEAUTY SHOP starring Queen Latifah, but it has little of the heart of those movies. Despite some positive moral elements, the movie has a liberal pagan worldview with a very strong politically correct attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual character is very effeminate and cracks crude, politically correct jokes viewers are supposed to find funny. THE SALON is a weak, offensive movie.

Content:

(PaPa, PCPCPC, FRFRFR, HoHoHo, B, C, Cap, Fe, LL, V, SS, N, AA, D, M) Strong liberal pagan worldview with very strong politically correct, antinomian attitude toward homosexuality where "oppression" against homosexuals is equated with racism and racial discrimination, some moral concerns expressed by characters (especially about the moral decline of their urban neighborhood), and people say hello to the local Christian pastor but any Christian worldview the characters have is only vaguely implied, smacks of antinomianism and seems to be rather liberal in that the characters seem to lean toward a social gospel rather than the biblical one, plus some pro-capitalist content and light feminist subtext as woman tries to save her business from the city government; 63 obscenities (including one "f" word and many "a--" words), two strong profanities and four light profanities; homosexual pelted with thrown eggs and angry women almost fight one another but are pulled apart by other people; strong sexual content includes some crude sexual references, implied demonstration of a sex act, implied fornication, references to a main character's homosexuality, references to prostitution, some sexual jokes, adultery with wronged wife made to appear ridiculous, and man lies on top of woman in bed; brief upper male nudity; alcohol use and perpetually drunken bum plays a comic role; smoking; and, lying, boasting and man is mean toward girlfriend and orders her around until she puts him in his place.

More Detail:

THE SALON, a small movie based on a stage play, tries to mine territory exploited earlier by the BARBERSHOP movies and BEAUTY SHOP starring Queen Latifah, but it has little of the heart of those movies.

Vivica A. Fox stars as Jenny, a sophisticated and hard working mother in Baltimore who runs a beauty shop. Unknown to her employees, including an overtly homosexual male character, the city is trying to take over Jenny’s building, which has been in her family for years, to build a parking lot. Complicating matters is the fact that Jenny is falling for the black lawyer representing the city, played by Darrin Henson. As the hairstylists bicker among each other and with some of the beauty shop’s clients and visitors, Jenny has trouble trying to balance her romantic feelings with her commitment to her business, her employees and her young son.

Despite some positive moral elements, THE SALON has a liberal pagan worldview with a very strong politically correct toward homosexuality. The movie’s homosexual character is very effeminate and cracks a few crude, politically correct sexual jokes that viewers are supposed to find funny. They aren’t. THE SALON is a weak, offensive movie that does not deserve much attention.

The official site for this movie says it’s for the entire family, but the movie’s sexual content and pro-homosexual themes are anything but family friendly, much less Christian friendly. Homosexuality is not the same thing as skin color, so laws against homosexual behavior and public intolerance for such behavior are not immoral: they are just, good, and true.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.