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mmsgm BE wwwdfweoin living Star Telegram I Tuesday September 172002 Parental guidance on this movies Reviewing the big screen for little viewers By JANE IIORWITZ THE WASHINGTON POST Barbershop (10-11 1 hour 40 minutes) Ice Cube heads an immensely likable cast in this little gem of a comedy Set on Chicago's south side in an older mostly African-American neighborhood Barbershop tells a slice-of-hfe story that crosses racial and ethnic boundaries celebrates the goodness and foibles of ordinary folk and thanks to director Tim Story never lets its warm heart go all mushy It will show thoughtful teens a different kind of ui ban comedy with characters developed and attitudes' spoofed through smart bristling dialogue The reflects considerable comic sexual innuendo occasional piofanity and understated violence also played for laughs Cube plays Calvin who runs the bnibershop he inherited from his dad The barbers are a motley crew ranging from an old-timer with outrageous opinions (Cedric the I ntertainer hilarious as usual) to a tough-talking woman (rap star I vc) to a white kid (Tioy Garity) fioin the who get customers until he wins their trust Calvin is behind on his taxes and short on cash In a weak moment he sells the barbershop to a loan shuk (Keith David) then tries to undo the deal after he realizes how important the barbershop is PS for teens: Barbershop owes quite a bit of its style to the movies of Spike Lee His Ciooklyn 13 1994) is about a close-knit family living in a New York inner-city neighborhood in the 1970s Swimfan (PG-13 1 hour 30 minutes) A high-school femme fatale sets her sights on the varsity swimming star and though she manages to seduce him once (in the pool of couisc) he refuses to leave his longtime girlfriend for her and she gels really angry A teen Fatal Attraction (R 1987)? Yep the movie this mmbingly predictable flick appears to be aping Teen audiences may get a charge out of the sophisticated tone of its sexual innuendo but the formulaic story bridge the credibility gap Unusually steamy (for though nongraphic sexual situations make Swimfan a bad choice for preteens Most of the violence is also nongraphic and has more to do with menace but there are struggles a drowning and a bloodied corpse Profanity and scenes of teen-age drinking also earn the rating Jesse Bradford plays Ben a reformed juvenile delinquent and talented swimmer whose little lapse with the new girl Madison (I'rika Christensen) nearly ruins his life Christensen sneers and tosses her curls as she bombards Ben with e-mails torments his girlfriend (Shiri Appleby) then turns violent FALL TV PREMIERE breaks a few but shows promise WE'D Y8 GET HUT? BTWITjl John Ritter's new sitcom MM has a good cast and some funny moments But it may not be as family-friendly as ABC would like you to think You have to get up and do the same hairmakeup routine every day so why not make it a little bit fun? 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