Chris Rock continues to surprise me.  Chris Rock launches a comedic documentary, Good Hair , nationally on October 23rd.  What is it all about?  Whether you have Black hair, White hair, or somewhere in between this movie is all about your hair!  Out of all people why did Chris Rock create this documentary?

When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair? The bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl’s head! Director Jeff Stilsons camera followed the funnyman, and the result is Good Hair, a wonderfully insightful and entertaining, yet remarkably serious, documentary about African American hair culture.An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, Good Hair visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter’s question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesnt always benefit the black community and little Lolas question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.

Chris Rock came on the Oprah show yesterday and had an honest discussion on women’s hair.  More posts to come from that show!  Good Hair comes to a theater near you in October. 

Select Cites October 9th and Nationally October 23rd