The story behind this movie goes a little something like this–Chris Rock’s young daughter once came up to him and, with tears in her eyes, asked, “Daddy, why don’t I have good hair?”.  This one question led Rock into a comedic documentary to be named for the tyke’s question, Good Hair.

And that’s what we’re tackling today.

Good Hair will travel the world, and go in search of that oh-so-ephemeral concept–what hair, exactly, is “good hair”, and what lengths will people go to to GET “good hair”?

And as it turns out, they will go to SPECTACULAR lengths.

There’s a hair CONVENTION, for example.  Twice a year, down in Atlanta, the Bronner Brothers Hair Show determines the new fashionable hairstyle and exhibits said styles to throngs of onlookers.  The Bronner Brothers show features a hairstyling exhibition, and winners of the Bronner Brothers show often go on to receive lucrative endorsement deals.

There’s also a full treatise on the nature of relaxers, and perhaps the most shocking thing of all…PURCHASED HAIR.

Yes, you may not know, but one of India’s top exports is, get this…HUMAN HAIR.  It’s made into wigs, and the infamous “weave”, so popular with African-American women.

I was just downright astonished by some of the information here–I mean, for crying out loud.  The chief component of hair relaxer, for example, is a chemical so caustic it will eat through an aluminum soda can in under four hours of immersion.  It will render it TRANSPARENT in just TWO hours!

There is so much that, chances are, you’ve never heard about in this movie that it probably will blow your mind open.

And there’s plenty of entertainment here, too.  Rock’s presentation style offers plenty of his normal comedy. You’ll laugh and you’ll learn–and it doesn’t get much better than that.

The Screenhead Ten Scale enjoys a good documentary as much as the next guy, and hands Good Hair a thoroughly good seven out of ten.