Stars: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright

Director: Milos Forman

Summary: A musical story where a young man on his way to enlist for Vietnam stops off in New York and gets involved with the Flower People. Many hit songs, including 'Let The Sun Shine In', 'Good Morning Starshine', 'I Got Life' and 'Aquarius'.

The "Age of Aquarius" is captured for all time in Czech director Milos Forman's version of the hit 1960s Broadway musical. A clean-cut midwestern kid named Claude (John Savage), fresh off the bus from Oklahoma and eager to do service in the military, comes to New York and ends up sidetracked by a nomadic tribe of hippies in Central Park. The group is vibrantly led by Berger (Treat Williams). Claude is eventually assimilated into this family of protesters and falls in love with Sheila (Beverly D'Angelo), a girl from a wealthy family. The plot hangs in the balance when Berger poses as Claude to buy Claude a little more time in the name of love. The film is notable for its hit songs such as "Let the Sun Shine In," its choreography by Twyla Tharp, a cameo by the late Nicholas Ray as a general, and for jump-starting the careers of Williams and D'Angelo. The screenplay by Michael Weller, based on the musical by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, with music by Galt Macdermot, effectively captures the feeling of the movement.

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Milos Forman's 1979 film of the 1968 musical Hairis far more watchable than it has any right to be. Controversial though the original stage version might have been at the time, it has not dated well. It was written back when most people thought the Vietnam War was a good idea and long hair on men a signifier of a hopelessly corrupt society, rather than the other way around. By the time the belated movie adaptation arrived attitudes had changed, and what made Hairso unique had become commonplace. However, the exuberance of the performances (led by Treat Williams) and the enduring appeal of some of the songs makes this movie version of Hair, even today, entirely impossible to dislike.

On the DVD: The only extra is the theatrical trailer which, much like the film itself, is quite a cute period piece. Inexplicably, the scene-searching menu is not arranged by song, making it infuriatingly difficult to locate the tune you want, unless you already know the movie so well, which would leave little point in hearing these songs again anyway. --Andrew Mueller

Aspect Ratio:	4:3, 1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Chapter Selection, Original Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Year:	1979
Release Date:	August 6, 2001
Runtime:	121 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	16180 D V D
Keywords:	Music, Films, Wide, Screen, Hair, Shows, Performing, Musicals, Arts
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts