Alicia I love this movie so much

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

WiseRatFlames An unexpected masterpiece

preppy-3 This takes place in the late 1960s. Claude Bukowski (John Savage) travels from Oklahoma to NYC to join the Army. While in NY he falls in with a group of hippies. They sing and dance about 1960s issues. Claude also falls for rich beautiful Sheila Franklin (Beverly D'Angelo). They all try to prevent Claude from going but he does...and finds basic training is a living hell.The plot is kind of vague as are the characters but this still works. The songs are great, the acting is on target, the costumes are VERY colorful and the dancing is energetic and directed by the legendary Twyla Tharp. Naturally it's dated but you get caught right up in it. Also, like the stage play this has female AND male nudity! This was a bomb when it came out in 1979 but has since developed a cult following. Highly recommended. Look for the late Nell Carter singing "White Boys".

johnny-burgundy Hair (1979) This is a musical anti-war drama film based on the 1968 Broadway musical Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. It is about a draftee who meets a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army. They introduce him to their environment of drugs, unorthodox relationships and free love. The film received generally favorable reviews from film critics at the time of its release. At the 37th Golden Globe Awards, the film was nominated for a Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Despite this, it did poorly at the box office. Treat Williams was nominated for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male. It's one of the better translations of a musical film and cultural gem.

keren-2 Hair is the only musical I like and can stand watching. I don't just like this film, I LOVE this film. Acting - superb! Story - interesting and so so touching. Songs - deep, full of very human and smart messages.A very beautiful, touching, so well acted deep and smart film. I cry each and every time.Don't miss it!

Mimi Andreeva The Musical is completely different category in the cinematography. It's really hard to create a work of art which do not affect by some catchphrases part of the best screen writing but with the whole magic of music that let people's mind fly through the movie make audience entertain. But Hair is not that musical it doesn't let people relax while watching it but make them think and pondering over questions deeply stuck in the human's history of the civilization. The war, and most specially Vietnam War, the consequences after it, the inner shaking that it provokes in human's soul lead Mr. Milos Forman to the path of making that extraordinary piece of pure cinema. A rollicking musical memoir. Affecting drama, exhilarating spectacle, provocative social observer. Fantastic musical, I highly recommend it. We all have to let the sun shine in our souls and realize that from the war nothing good may be borne - if we want to leave a better life we can just if we live in harmony with everything which means to leave in peace firstly with ourselves, and secondly with the others living creatures. What the phenomenal Mr. Forman wants to show us are exactly the ugly faces of the war but by the tragic finale to provoke a feeling of real catharsis that the good will always prevail over the evil.