John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo

Claude leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture and subsequently drafted.

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PG, 2 hrs. 1 min.

Directed by: Milos Forman

Release Date: March 14, 1979

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DVD Release Date: May 15, 2001

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  • April 20, 2008
    My musical.. Hippies lost in a world that doesnt need them.
  • March 29, 2008
    I'm not sure whether this movie adaptation of the 60's musical could have been made one year later. By coming out in 1979, it seems . . . almost . . . appropriate as an end of the 70s film (although it might have faired better as an end of the 60s film). Certainly, Vietnam was...( read more) still a huge and recent open wound in '79 that definitely didn't to any degree miraculously go away at midnight on 31 December 1969.

    This film, very movingly, illustrates a supreme sacrifice . . . for friendship, for love, and for America's horribly failed war effort in Southeast Asia. Such a tragedy. I thought for sure that Savage's future was secure after The Deer Hunter. What has happened to him? And Treat Williams. This is so good. Was it a fatal career move to shine in a 60s hit that came out, almost, in 1980? I guess I'll never know.

    Does anyone else notice Morgan Freeman as an uncredited extra playing a soldier? Or is it just my feeble eyesight?

    For musical buffs, this is a must. For Vietnam experience film buffs, this is also a must.

    Let the sun shine in.

  • January 21, 2008
    It's over the top and everything but it's simply delicious to see where do "Rent", "Spring Awakening" and "Across the universe" have to pay tribute for their plots and character development. John Savage and Treat Williams give two of the best male performances I have ever seen in...( read more) a musical and the music and lyrics are gorgeous. What a delightful movie! Who knew Beverly D'Angelo was HOT?
  • July 1, 2007
    A Vietnam draftee runs into a group of hippies before going off to war, and has a great party with them.

    There's some great songs within, inluding the title track "Hair", "The Age of Aquarius", "Good Morning Starshine", etc... all the songs were great!

    The LSD hallucination...( read more) scene at the rock festival was wild stuff.

    All of the characters were very likeable. I didn't want anything bad to happen to any of them.

    The ending is terribly tragic, but we're supposed to feel like we've learned something. The end song is very uplifting however, with everybody singing "Let the Sunshine In".
  • October 27, 2007
    A cool musical movie.
  • November 16, 2009
    I need to give this one a second chance. It has potential. The music is good.
  • October 11, 2009
    Great movie. I'd love to see it in theatre also.
  • October 10, 2009
    Awesome movie, just watched it with my 11yr old daughter...lol...she was amazed to see the peace symbols, she thought that they were a new thing.
  • September 27, 2009
    cant find this movie anywere i want my wife to see it ver good
  • September 13, 2009
    Hair is a 1979 film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same title about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to their environment of marijuana, LSD, and unorthod...( read more)ox relationships.

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  • ivanamika
    September 10, 2009
    My favorite! Brilliant movie, even better music ... Wherever you look, leave a strong impression on me.
  • trynkvn
    January 31, 2007
    I am not much into musicals, but this one has changed my whole outlook, I just love this movie...

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