‘Hair’, a 1979 Hollywood movie based on Broadway musical by Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and Galt MacDermo will be screened at 6 pm on February 24 at American Center, Colombo-03.
Directed by Miloš Forman, the film narrates about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center.
In this adaptation of the hit Broadway musical a naive farm boy from Oklahoma named Claude Hooper Bukowski (John Savage) heads to New York City to enlist in the Army and serve in the Vietnam War. In Central Park, he meets a troupe of free-spirited hippies led by a young man named George Berger (Treat Williams), who introduces him to a debutante named Sheila Franklin (Beverly D’Angelo).
Inevitably, Claude is sent off to boot camp in Nevada, but Berger and his band of merry pranksters including Woof Daschund (Don Dacus), LaFayette “Hud” Johnson (Dorsey Wright) and Jeannie Ryan (Annie Golden) do what they can to rescue Claude from a tour of duty in Vietnam.
Played by Treat Williams, John Savage, Beverly D’Angelo, Don Dacus of the rock band Chicago, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Nell Carter, Ellen Foley as well as Johnny Maestro, Jim Rosica and Fred Ferrara of the rock group The Brooklyn Bridge, the film was nominated for a Best Picture Golden Globe Award, and Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe as New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male.
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