Noras Hair Salon

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

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. The film is lighter in tone and content as it is rated PG-13. Series creator and co-star Jean Claude-Lamarre cameos as Devin, who has become a minister and is now straight, much to the anger of his ex Delicious.

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. This time around, Delicious is the main character and new owner of the salon.