Hair

Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to their environment of marijuana, LSD, unorthodox relationships and draft dodging. The film was directed by Miloš Forman, who was nominated for a César Award for his work on the film. Cast members include Treat Wi... More

Initial release date:

  • Mar 14, 1979

Directed by:

Rating:

PG (USA)

Runtime:

  • 2 h 1 min

Screenplay by:

Also known as:

  • Hair

Film

Directed by

Miloš Forman

Jan Tomáš Forman (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈtomaːʃ ˈforman]; born February 18, 1932), known as Miloš Forman ([ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman], English /ˈmiːloʊʃ ˈfɔərmən/), is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's...

Tagline:

  • Let the sun shine in . . . all over again!

Release date(s):

  • 1979

Production design by:

Set Decoration by:

Costume design by:

Other crew:

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Runtime:

  • 2 h 1 min

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Estimated budget:

Currency Amount
  • 11,000,000

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Awards

Awards Won:

Year Award Award Winner
  • 1979

David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director Winners

Golden Globe Award for Best Film - Musical or Comedy Nominees

Appears in ranked lists:

List Rank Year Note
  • 2,411
  • Apr 25, 2010
  • 6.5

The Movie List: the first 9200 of 2010-04-25

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Media

Adapted From

Hair

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement....

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