Line #26 Film/BeautyShop


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: "If I wanted to go get a job tomorrow at a shop, I could. But that's not where my heart is. It's time that I own something."]]
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4	Gina Norris is a hairstylist working under her {{jerkass}} boss, Jorge. After having another argument with said boss, she decides that she can't stand him anymore and quits. Gina then decides to buy a shop of her own, but problems arise, which predictably include money, customers who don't know her, her snarky employees, and even family issues. With the help of her best friend Lynn, Gina works to overcome these issues in order to keep her business afloat.
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8	!!This film contains examples of:
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10	* AmbiguouslyGay: The girls discuss this about James [[spoiler: until [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt Lynn]] [[NoBisexuals proves otherwise.]]]]
11	%% * BetaCouple: [[spoiler: Lynn and James]] to Gina & Joe.
12	%% * BigBeautifulWoman: Well, that's Music/QueenLatifah.
13	%% * ButtMonkey: Poor Lynn.
14	* ComicallyOversizedButt: When a woman walks into the shop with small shorts and a big butt, Ida jokes about [[BlackComedyCannibalism eating the woman's butt in order to survive]] if they were ever stranded.
15	-->'''Ida:''' See now if a plane crashed, we could eat for days.
16	* CoolOldLady: Gina's mother-in-law is basically her mother and confidant.
17	%% * DeadpanSnarker: Most of the cast!
18	%% * {{Expy}}: Lynn is basically the female version of ''Barbershop'''s Isaac.
19	%% * TheDeterminator: Gina, Gina, Gina.
20	%% * {{Fauxreigner}}: [[spoiler:Jorge]]
21	%% * MightyWhitey: The girls in the beauty shop see Lynn as one, but she's only trying ''hard'' of make new friends.
22	* MistakenForRacist: Jorge, in the beginning, because due to his foreign accent he pronounces the word "moniker" a certain way.
23	* MrFanservice: James, and Gina exploits his fanserviceness to attract clients. Indeed, the queue of customers reaches up in the street.
24	* NoBisexuals: Throughout the film, Gina and Lynn's friends debate whether or not the new guy they're all crushing on (James) is gay based on his feminine traits (he likes to watch Oprah, emphasize with women on topics and hates violence). By the film's climax, when the girls see that [[spoiler: James and Lynn are sharing a kiss on the dance floor together]], they all immediately quip that "[[DeadpanSnarker James' is gay alright!]] [[HavingAGayOldTime He's happier than ever!]]" and they all finally believe that he is straight. Nobody In-Universe discusses or mentions the possibility of bisexuality.
25	* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Gina's Mother In Law has lost both her husband and her son (Gina's late husband).
26	* RealMenWearPink: James does hair, watches [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]], carries a "man-bag", wants to get rid of some "unruly" chest hairs, but also gives Darnelle's DomesticAbuser a beatdown and comments [[BadassPacifist "I hate violence"]]. It should be noted that the girls making fun of James' man-bag is HilariousInHindsight since purses are OlderThanTheyThink being invented in the 16th century when clothes had no pockets and male aristocratics wore it on the hip to carry around their money.
27	* RealWomenHaveCurves: This trope is discussed and there is even some commentary on plastic surgery.
28	%% * SassyBlackWoman: But of course.
29	%% Please elaborate on what attitudes the protagonist has to make her qualify for the trope.
30	* TokenWhite: Lynn, and at the beginning the other girls aren't fine with it.
31	* TroubledButCute: James.
32	* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: It's even lampshaded.
33	* YesNoAnswerInterpretation: after Gina gives the bank teller a makeover in an attempt to persuade her to approve her loan:
34	--> '''Gina''': "Do you like it?"
35	--> '''Elizabeth''': "Oh!" hugs
36	--> '''Gina''': laugh "I guess that's a 'yes,' or is that the way you fight?"

Context Film / BeautyShop