Hair

Year:	1979
Country:	International
Language:	English
Genre:	Comedy, Drama, Musical
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	6.5 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	7 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


Director	Miloš Forman
Selected Cast	John Savage as Claude Hooper Bukowski
	Treat Williams as George Berger
	Beverly D'Angelo as Sheila Franklin
	Annie Golden as Jeannie Ryan
	Dorsey Wright as Lafayette aka Hud
	Cheryl Barnes as Hud's Fiancee
Producer	Michael Butler
	Lester Persky
Writer	Gerome Ragni
	James Rado
Soundtrack	Galt MacDermot

Notes

A USA / West Germany co-production

On DVD & Blu-ray World

VHS

Hair - Warner Home Video - Norway (1988)

DVD

Hair - 20th Century Fox - Australia (2000)

DVD

Hair - MGM - USA (1999)

Comments and Reviews


Twistin 2nd Mar 2016		Rated 4/10 For anyone who missed out on the inane spectacle known as hippies, here is a glossed-over version put to film a decade after the fact, a time when they were dismissed for what they were. Hence the boxoffice failure. Miloš Forman's hippies are all so shined up in brand new threads that look like they just came off a movie studio's wardrobe department rack. Real hippies never looked like this, nor were they ever the athletic, dancing heroes this dopey musical depicts them as. Even an acid trip is completely misrepresented in true Hollywood fashion, as doled out in Central Park by a pseudo priest with a Communist star painted on his face. The two most famous tunes from the Broadway play, the title song and "Aquarius", are mere scenes with no significant impression made by either, both ineptly reprised back-to-back for a big feel-good ending. On the other hand, Cheryl Barnes's performance of "Easy to Be Hard" (a hit for Three Dog Night in 1969) is the centerpiece of one of the film's best moments, along with the amusing "White Boys" (featuring Nell Carter and The Stylistics!) Pompously, the world Hair lives in is filled with two kinds of people: righteous hippies and disconnected establishment white folk. Don't get me wrong -- when I was young and knew nothing about life and the real world, I bought into all of this sort of foolishness, as well. But I matured and outgrew it along with believing there were monsters under the bed. It would be entertaining if the principals didn't believe in their dizzy excuse for ideals. Even children know that the real world is not made up of superheroes and cartoon characters. This is the era when Hollywood decided to re-examine the counter-culture and its components -- namely, Vietnam, an on-going theme they never let go of, seating the idea that they are a political force. A year earlier, Coming Home; later that year it was The Deer Hunter, several months later, Apocalypse Now. Tinseltown's catharsis -- further solidified by as many Oscar nominations and wins as they could possibly hack up. If they absolutely had to make this film, it should have been no later than 1970. In this form, it's more Fame than Woodstock. It's the same self-centered pretentiousness either way. Perhaps one day the Occupy Wall Street movement will be interpreted as a liberating, jubilant love story with humanity and morality at its core, while a congestion of vibrant musical passages bind the mission of glory. Ugh... 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



neil86 28th Feb 2016		Songs from movie by Cheryl Barnes here

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