Hair (1979)

United Artists
Directed by Milos Forman
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM)

Badly dated even by the time of its release in 1979, this adaptation of the Broadway musical is a bizarre curio. A country hick from Oklahoma travels to New York City to spend his last days of freedom before joining the Army. He stumbles upon a group of hippies in a park singing and performing avant garde dance moves. He should have turned around and run at that point, but instead gets swept into the traveling sideshow led by a grinning Treat Williams. He experiments with drugs, his first LSD trip leading to a surreal wedding to the object of his affections Beverly D'Angelo. After lots more singing and dancing and not much of a plot, he finally goes away to boot camp in Nevada. His old hippie friends miss him and travel cross-country to pay him a visit. The ending is ironic.