Hair
by Milos Forman
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Actor: Annie Golden, Beverly D'Angelo, Dorsey Wright, John Savage, Treat WilliamsDirector: Milos Forman
Brand: Hair
Cinematographer: Jean Talvin
Producer: Lester Persky
Producer: Michael Butler
Producer: Robert Greenhut
Writer: Gerome Ragni
Writer: James Rado
Writer: Michael Weller
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-04-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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DVD Reviews of Hair
DVD Review: Fun
Summary: 3 Stars
Silly but fun, the songs will get stuck in your head for days. While not as good as the stage versions it is still worth seeing for any lover of musicals.DVD Review: The Movie "Hair" is Not True at All to the Original Broadwa Musical "Hair"
Summary: 1 Stars
The movie "Hair" was made in the late 1970's. The Vietnam War was over for some years now and disco and "Saturday Night Fever" and "Satr Wars" were now in.
The music was from most of the origianl score. (No. It did not have all the music from it).
The story was completely changed.
I was too young in the late 1960's and early 1970's to see the original Broadway musical, however, I was fortunate to have seen an episode of ABC's sit-com "Head of the Class" tht stared Howard Hessman. In the episode, the students of the high school Hessman's character teaches at put on the musical "Hair" as the school annual play. The episode shows excerpts of the original musical or as the original musical was supposed to be. The movie was nothing like it at all.
I really like wha I saw on that episode of "Head of the Class" and have always hoped that a video theatrical presentation of "hair" would be made some time in the future like was done with "Oh! Calcutta!". Oh! Calcutta! Unfortuantely, so far, nothing.
They only have a documentary available it seems. Hair: Let the Sunshine In
I hope tht one day a video version on DVD of the original version of the musical "Hair" will be made available.
DVD Review: Fantastic!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Being a huge fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber myself, I was somewhat sceptical of seeing a movie of the same genre by someone other than him writing it, But this movie has changed my mind completely! By watching this movie, I get a real feel of how the 60's movement was and can relate to the characters and what they were going through. It has great music, great dancers, annd a great plot. An all around GREAT MOVIE!!! I would recommend it to anyone.DVD Review: Nicely done translation of the stage play to film.
Summary: 5 Stars
Having seen a stage version only once recently of HAIR I think the stage play translates very nicely in the film version. Not being intimately familar with the production and origins of the stage play my only take on it is what is presented in the context of viewing the film and seeing the stage version. The presentation is very evenhanded because Claude Hooper played by John Savage is the country boy inductee who leaves his farm totally willingly to go to the induction station and serve the military. Claude is made to be a 3 dimensional character and still shows interests in the hippies he meets in central park, and meets one of hippies, George Berger (played by Treat Williams); Claude makes friends with them dispite a few misgivings and finds friendship with the Hippies but will not be disuaded by them to not report to the induction station. There is an understanding that the Hippies and Claude gain and a strong bond of friendship which sets the stage for the rest of the film to unfold. Most of all, the film deals with the counter culture and establishments attitudes toward the Vietnam War and questioning obeidence to the governments policies in the prosecution of the vietnam war.DVD Review: Garbage - One for the Dump
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't believe someone had the nerve to recommend this movie to me of all people. I'm not so easily persuaded by the theme of this movie or from the hippy movt in general; a bunch of brain-dead idiots with long hair who talk about "love" is not all it takes to sway me. Love and freedom are not actualized without responsibility. Hippies are about as responsible as a mama cat with a bullseye painted on her and surrounded by a pack of wolves. Sitting on the ground and mooching off of others while talking about love and freedom is nothing more than madness. This movie is garbage, rather than watching it I recommend that you check out a book called, "Acid Dreams by Martin A. Lee," if you want to get the best and the worst of the real story. After seeing hippies as a gullible people who "tuned out" from harmony with the cosmos, I can no longer see them in the same light as I did before. They are of no use to me or to anyone else. 0 stars and not recommended at all.
Description of Hair
Brimming with the energy, passion and music that rocked a nation, Hair is an entertaining and powerful tribute to the turbulent spirit of the '60s. Brilliantly recreated by Oscar?(r)-winning* director Milos Forman and screenwriter Michael Weller (Ragtime), this vibrant screen version of the Broadway phenomenon ranks "among the best film musicals" (The Hollywood Reporter)! Fresh from the farm, Claude Bukowski (John Savage, The Thin Red Line) arrives in New York City for a date with the Army Induction Board, only to walk into a hippie "happening" inCentral Park and fall in love with the beautiful Shelia (Beverly D'Angelo, American History X). Befriended by the hippies' pacifist leader, Berger (Treat Williams, Mulholland Falls), and urged to crash a formal party in order to declare his love for Shelia, Claude begins an adventure that lands him in jail, Central Park Lake and, finally, in the army. But Berger's final effort to save Claude from Vietnam sets in motion a bizarre twist of fate with shocking consequences. *1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; 1984: AmadeusThe Age of Aquarius is brought to life by the filmmaker who made Amadeus a household word. Milos Forman directed this version of James Rado, Gerome Ragni, and Galt MacDermot's landmark musical in 1979 between his Oscar-winning films One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus. With mixed reviews (Gene Siskel named it that year's best film) and lukewarm box-office grosses, the film all but disappeared from the collective consciousness. Yet the film beautifully delivers on its promise to bring the '60s back to life. Hair re-creates a colorful world of counterculture finding an anvil to pound on: the Vietnam War. Forman and his design team allow the film to wash over you, starting at the free-flowing opening in which masses of hippies, police, and even their horses eagerly groove to the familiar beat of "Aquarius." In the best work of his career, Treat Williams makes his leading- man debut as Berger, the leader of the Central Park troop who takes draftee Claude (John Savage) under his wing on his trip through New York City and the apex of what the '60s was. The new recording of the music is quite fine, with Chicago band member Don Dacus's rendition of the title song a highlight. As Berger's pi?ce de r?sistance number says, "I've Got Life"; so does the film, right down to its poignant declaration to "let the sunshine in." --Doug Thomas
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