
MGM (Video & DVD) - MGM (Video & DVD)
Release date: 1999-04-27
DVD
Director:Milos Forman
Actors: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright
Adult Language, Adult Situations, Anti-War Film, Atmospheric, Bittersweet, Bohemian Life, Brief Nudity, Color, Comedy, Culture Clash, Drama, English, Feature, Fish Out of Water, Generation Gap, Irreverent, Movie, Music Video, Musical, Musical Drama




Really good older movie. I watched thsi when I was in my 20s. Loved it so much, asked my mom to watch it with me ... and she loved it. She is in her 70s now and still remembers the movie. It shows a lot of the emotions that were going on in the 60s with the Vietnam War. Also how teenager were in the era with sex, drugs and music.
What a long strange trip it's been. Barely ten years after its original theatrical run, Hair was brought to the screen by people who either hadn't seen it, didn't like it or just didn't get it or the themes it explored. Director Milos Forman apparently missed the 1960s entirely (or saw them exclusively through the lens of Soviet oppression and student demonstrations in Eastern Europe) and he seems to think that David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and Peter Frampton were hippies. Treat Williams is a surprisingly good singer and dancer and quite good in the role of Berger but the film just misses the point - socially, politically and (perhaps most importantly of all) musically. The whole thing comes across as a put on and proof of the silliness of the counterculture.