The film stars Ice Cube, Anthony Anderson, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Troy Garity, Michael Ealy, Leonard Earl Howze, Keith David and Cedric the Entertainer.

On a cold winter day in Chicago, Calvin Palmer Jr. (Ice Cube) decides he has had enough of trying to keep open the barbershop his father handed down to him.

Without telling his employees or the customers, he sells the barbershop to a greedy loan shark, Lester Wallace (Keith David), who secretly plans to turn it into a strip club.

Ricky is accused of driving his pickup truck into a nearby market to steal an ATM, but it's revealed that his cousin J.D.

The website's consensus reads: "Besides bringing on the laughs, Barbershop displays a big heart and demonstrates the value of community.

"[6] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 66 out of 100 based on 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Beauty Shop was pushed back from a late summer 2004 release, and finally reached theaters in March 2005.

In addition, Isaac's last name is changed from "Rosenberg" to "Brice", and the character Ricky has been replaced by a more hardened ex-con, Romadal.

In late March of that year, MGM executives revealed that they have been negotiating deals with Ice Cube to appear in the film.

[9] A year later, MGM announced that the studio has been setting up deals with Cedric the Entertainer, Queen Latifah, Lisa Maffia, and Nicki Minaj to appear in the film.