MOVIE REVIEW
Norman Rockwell's Shuffleton Barbershop
Network: Hallmark Movie Channel
Original Air Date: June 1, 2013
CAST:
Danny Glover ... Charlie Shuffleton
Austin Stowell ... Trey Cole
Kayla Ewell ... Norma
Brett Rice ... General Wes Cameron
Dash Pledger-Levine ... Young Trey Cole
Carol Watts ... Katherine
PLOT:
Inspired by one of 20th century painter Norman Rockwell’s iconic images depicting American life, the story follows a famous musician Trey Cole (Austin Stowell) who returns to his hometown after abandoning it many years ago, eager to reconnect with the barber, Charlie Shuffleton (Danny Glover) who took him under his wing as a young boy (Dash Pledger-Levine). Realizing he is too late, he must learn to make amends with his sister-in-law Norma (Kayla Ewell) and his estranged dad (Brett Rice), while paying tribute to the man who taught him the importance of coming home.
Norman Rockwell's Shuffleton Barbershop is a film that begins on the famous Normal Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover of April 29, 1950. The scene fades in from that image to three men holding instruments in a small-town barbershop as painted by the great Norman Rockwell. Young musician Trey Cole returns to his hometown and the barbershop where he got his first haircut. Amid the small town pageantry of the Christmas season, Trey finds ways to mend old fences and will discover the power of forgiveness.
More details from the Hallmark Channel:
When Rockwell’s painting fades into the world of Charlie Shuffleton’s (Glover) barbershop, this classic piece of Americana becomes the center of a small town in Georgia where friends gather, gossip flows, and age-old memories are kept. Peering in the window, famous country singer Trey Cole (Stowell) is finally returning home after cruelly abandoning the town many years ago and never looking back, even when his brother died serving in the military. Now, realizing he’s lost himself along the way, Trey remembers getting his first haircut in the cracked brown leather chair in Charlie’s shop, and hopes to find guidance from the man who was a father to him when his own dad, General Wes Cameron (Brett Rice, “Magic City”), was coldly absent during his childhood.
However, as Trey enters the shop and sees Charlie’s old friends playing a trio of instruments in the back room, he is surprised when Charlie isn’t there and is saddened to hear of his death just a few months prior. With childhood memories flooding his mind about Charlie’s constant and loving influence on him as a young boy, Trey knows he must face his own father and the family he hardly knows to honor Charlie’s memory and make things right.
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