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Hair
A wild, freewheeling counterculture musical that starts as a shaggy hangout comedy and ends in a sharp anti-war gut punch. It’s messy on purpose, but the energy, performances, and emotional whiplash make it memorable.
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A wild, freewheeling counterculture musical that starts as a shaggy hangout comedy and ends in a sharp anti-war gut punch. It’s messy on purpose, but the energy, performances, and emotional whiplash make it memorable.
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Thu · 2h 1m
Director: Miloš Forman
Starring: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Miloš Forman
John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
A wild, freewheeling counterculture musical that starts as a shaggy hangout comedy and ends in a sharp anti-war gut punch. It’s messy on purpose, but the energy, performances, and emotional whiplash make it memorable.
Hair is less a conventional musical than a burst of cultural memory: a ragged, ecstatic portrait of youth, freedom, and the fantasy of opting out. Miloš Forman keeps it loose and human, letting the songs feel like communal declarations rather than tidy set pieces. The result is funny, sensual, and strangely tender, even when it seems to be drifting aimlessly.
What makes it stick is the tonal swing. The movie can feel like a joyful hangout one moment and a devastating anti-war statement the next, with the final stretch landing far harder than its breezy first half suggests. That contrast is the point: the film treats the counterculture not as a joke or a sermon, but as a fragile, doomed attempt at self-invention.
It won’t work for everyone, especially if you need narrative discipline or a more polished musical style. But if you’re open to a movie that’s messy, exuberant, and emotionally ambushes you near the end, Hair has a real charge to it.
vin (3.5★) · 1654 likes
most of the movie: haha, this is just a fun musical comedy :)) the last ten minutes: WHAT THE FUCK
Jake Moran (5★) · 1125 likes
As soon as those horses started dancing I knew how many stars this was gonna get
𝒜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒶 𝒦.🏳️🌈 (5★) · 849 likes
“Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair” From Milos Forman the acclaimed director who brought us many wonderful films such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, Man on the Moon and this underrated classic of hippy innocence/affecting drama. Releasing at the tail end of the 70’s and reflecting the anti-Vietnam counterculture era, Hair takes us on a drug laden euphoric adventure through New York City and beyond. A band of misfits led by Treat Williams take… more
Gerry Nava (5★) · 711 likes
Hair is identity, and identity gives you power over the oppressor. The ending song fucking slaps.
Oliver Swift (4★) · 645 likes
Me 10 mins into the movie: hehe his name is Berger. Me at the end of the movie: 😭😭 his name is Berger!
Another cult musical that turns rebellion, performance, and sexual freedom into a gleefully unruly spectacle.
Shares the anti-war irreverence and anarchic comic energy, with a darker political edge underneath the jokes.
A companion piece in Forman’s work: anti-authoritarian, funny, and ultimately devastating about institutional power.
For viewers drawn to the era’s musical exuberance and communal performance energy, even though it’s a concert film and not a narrative match.
An ensemble music film about youthful aspiration, group chemistry, and the messy joy of making a scene together.
A similarly bold, era-specific rock musical with a theatrical, confrontational spirit and strong countercultural resonance.
Combines musical performance with political unease and a gradual darkening that redefines the whole film.
Captures generational dislocation, sexual confusion, and the feeling of drifting through a culture in transition.
A landmark road movie about freedom, disillusionment, and the collapse of 60s idealism.
A loose, anti-establishment American hangout movie with folk-music roots and a distinctly countercultural sensibility.
If the ensemble camaraderie and generational self-mythology appeal, this offers a more reflective, adult version of that energy.
A stylized portrait of 60s excess and artistic self-destruction that overlaps in mood and era.
counterculture, anti-war, identity and self-invention, youth rebellion, found family, draft and military service, sexual freedom, urban drift
1970s, counterculture, anti-war, musical drama, ensemble cast, hippie culture, coming-of-age, satirical comedy, tragic ending, New York City