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- 1979
- PG
- United Artists
- 2 h 1 m
- 1979
- PG
- United Artists
- 2 h 1 m
Summary Claude (Savage), a midwestern boy who's been drafted for the Vietnam War, travels to New York City and meets a group of hippies.
Directed By: Milos Forman
Written By: Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Michael Weller
- 1979
- PG
- United Artists
- 2 h 1 m
- 1979
- PG
- United Artists
- 2 h 1 m
Hair
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7.1
Where to Watch
Summary Claude (Savage), a midwestern boy who's been drafted for the Vietnam War, travels to New York City and meets a group of hippies.
Directed By: Milos Forman
Written By: Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Michael Weller
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
68
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
There is much to recommend in this film, and sheer energy pours off the screen in every frame.
Hair succeeds at all levels—as lowdown fun, as affecting drama, as exhilarating spectacle and as provocative social observation.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 User Ratings
7.1
68% Positive
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
19% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
14% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 User Ratings
7.1
68% Positive
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
19% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
14% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Amazing! One of favorite movies and my favorite musical. It is brilliantly directed my Milos Forman. It poigniantly combines love for the era and its music and the anger and sadness that the Viet Nam War brought us all.
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When I need a dose of Twyla Tharp choreography, this is my go-to flick! And it’s how I fell in love with many of the actors.
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Hair is entertaining - even fabulously entertaining - because it is so strange, so young, so innocent, so beneficent and adolescent, so lovable and so loving; it is entertaining because it is - all of it is - so impossible, so remote, so inconceivable in any place anywhere outside of a Hollywood musical. [28 Mar 1979]
A rollicking musical memoir, as much a recollection of the show as of the period, a film that has the charm of a fable and the slickness of Broadway show biz at its breathless best.
Forman and screenwriter Michael Weller brought a sense of coherence to the original freewheeling structure and Twyla Tharp's choreography imparted an infectious dynamism. But, the profanity, nudity and disregard for the fourth wall that had made the stage show such a sensation were lost in the translation.
The spirit and elan that captivated the Vietnam protest era are long gone, and what Forman tries to make up with splash and verve fails to evoke potent nostalgia.
Everyone seems sincere and bursting with energy, yet there is a strange lack of conviction: Forman has taken the honorable route by refusing to treat the material as easy nostalgia, but the confrontational sentiments no longer have the substance to survive his straightforward presentation.
This film was one of my first movies that changed my life, inspiring, full of love and spirit, a masterpiece of Milos Forman, my alltime favorit! The plot is different than the stage version, but the spirit of the original time and the original version is **** will enjoy Im sure, love and peace.
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What starts as campy grows like a beautiful, long, and flowing lock of "Hair" to become an involving and solid reflection regarding the American counterculture/war landscape of the late 1960's- complete with some great choreographed dances, song covers, and cast direction.
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Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
David di Donatello Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
César Awards, France
• 1 Nomination
