rock star john norman howard ( kris kristofferson ) turn lounge singer esther hoffman ( barbra streisand ) into an overnight singing star . esther star rise while john go into decline and thanks to drug and alcohol . after about two hour and john do the self destructive red converible 160 mph crack up on a desert highway thing . the best thing about this movie be the music and especially the song and evergreen . barbra streisand sings well and but you can not take her seriously a an up and come star and when she be already a star . the very first time she appear and sing in a back alley bar and she look like an establish singing star who be slum for the night and not like a struggle unknown who be try to launch her sing career . she be too confident and too professional . her apartment look like a page out of apartment living and not some hole in the wall apartment where a real struggling singer would live . kris kristofferson handle the self center and out of control rock star role like . well and like a singer who be try to be an actor but doesn not have much acting talent . the direction be tepid and the story be slow and dull . but the bad thing about this movie be not the acting and or the lame direction and or the slow story . it the hair . after star at kristofferson and streisand awful 70 hairdo for 2 plus hour and your eye hurt .