Nora's Hair Salon

Nora's Hair Salon
Nora's Hair Salon Film Poster
Directed by	Jerry LaMothe
Produced by	Jean-Claude La Marre Tim Swain Tamala Jones
Written by	Chanel Capra Jean-Claude La Marre
Starring	Jenifer Lewis Tamala Jones Tatyana Ali
Distributed by	DEJ Productions
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	90 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$5,000,000 (estimate)

Nora's Hair Salon is a 2004 independent comedy-drama film, written by Chanel Capra and Jean-Claude La Marre, and directed by Jerry LaMothe. This film stars Jenifer Lewis, Tamala Jones, and Tatyana Ali.

Plot

Nora Harper (Jenifer Lewis) is an African-American businesswoman who owns a hair salon in Los Angeles, California. She keeps watch over her employees, friends, relatives, and regular customers. Lilleana (Tatyana Ali) is a new employee from the Dominican Republic, and she is also in an abusive relationship with her wants-more-than friend, Bennie (Bobby Brown). Chloe (Tamala Jones) is a hair stylist who has aspirations of a career in show business. Ming (Lucille Soong) does manicures and has problems with her temper, and loves offering her opinions. Devin (Jean-Claude LaMarre) is a bisexual man who is uncertain about his relationship with Delicious (Donn Swaby). Later in the film, Nora has a heart attack. Her friends from the salon hope for her recovery but she dies shortly before the end of the film. In the end the salon remains open, selling Nora's hairstyling products.

Cast

• Jenifer Lewis — Nora
• Tamala Jones — Chloe
• Tatyana Ali — Lilleana
• Bobby Brown — Benny
• Jean-Claude La Marre — Devin
• Lucille Soong — Ming
• Christine Carlo — Xenobia
• Donn Swaby — Delicious,
• Lil' Kim — Herself
• Kristian Bernard
• Brandi Burnside
• Kianya Haynes
• Johan Jean
• Claudia Jordan
• Jerry LaMothe
• Cheyenne Maxey — Girl Scout
• Libby Millhouse
• Whitney Houston — herself
• Jonathan McDaniel — Leronne

Sequel

A Direct-to-video sequel putting Lilleana as the main character was released entitled Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above, starring Tatyana Ali, Stacy Dash, Donn Swaby, Bobby Brown and Mekhi Phifer.

A second sequel was released in 2011 entitled Nora's Hair Salon 3: The Cutting Edge. However, none of the original cast stars in it.

External links

• Nora's Hair Salon at the Internet Movie Database