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  • 2014
  • Cinema Tropical
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2014
  • Cinema Tropical
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Junior (Samuel Lange Zambrano) is nine years old and has “bad hair.” He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This puts him at odds with his mother, Marta (Samantha Castillo). The more Junior tries to look beautiful and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him.

Directed By: Mariana Rondón

Written By: Mariana Rondón

  • 2014
  • Cinema Tropical
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2014
  • Cinema Tropical
  • 1 h 33 m

Bad Hair

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
74
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Junior (Samuel Lange Zambrano) is nine years old and has “bad hair.” He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This puts him at odds with his mother, Marta (Samantha Castillo). The more Junior tries to look beautiful and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him.

Directed By: Mariana Rondón

Written By: Mariana Rondón

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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7% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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90
Nov 18, 2014
Bad Hair is an uncomfortably accurate depiction of a poignant mother-son power struggle in a fatherless family in which each knows how to get under the other’s skin.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 27, 2015
There’s horror here, but it never feels like a simple catalogue of degradation. This is down in large part to the performances, which are naturalistic without ever being amateurish, and the subtle, careful script, which refuses to slide either into pathos or tragedy.
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80
Nov 17, 2014
While Rondon’s focus is the struggle of wills between a boy awakening to homosexual feelings and his embittered mother, the helmer invests their collision with a powerful specificity.
By Jay Weissberg FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 17, 2014
The narrative works through the many contradictions brewing inside its main character in the wake of his personal actualization without ever feeling like a dramatic checklist.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 18, 2014
Rondón treats her characters with toughness and empathy, without devising easy outs or slipping into sentimentality.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 26, 2020
The “hair” with a murderous mind of its own is more funny than scary.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
42
Nov 27, 2014
With her underdeveloped, dismissive, screenplay and myopic direction, Rondòn is as delicate with her theme as Michael Bay is with his American flag shots or Tim Burton with his kitschy quirkiness. That hers is a serious context makes it that much more disappointing.
By Nikola Grozdanovic FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Artefactos S.F, Hanfgarn & Ufer Film und TV Produktion, Imagen Latina, La Sociedad Post, Sudaca Films
Release Date Nov 19, 2014
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/PelomaloFilm
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Awards

The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema
• 8 Nominations
Torino Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Premios Fénix (Fenix Film Awards)
• 5 Nominations

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