i be a hippie age 22 in 1965 and have see the play 5 time and have 2 version of the music and and have read the script many time . maybe take a an separate thing and the movie be ok and but a an adoption of the play and it terrible . first the good . the song be sing well and and the production value be pretty good . the homosexual implication in black boy and white boy be cute . the claude or berger switch be interest . hair be a fluid production and and constant change in it be inherent provide the basic spirit of it be retain . but the basic spirit be very much distort . it seem like all the producer want be to sing certain song and and fit the story line to them regardless of what that do to the original intent of the play . claude and sheila and and hud be present a a selfish brat who could care less about anyone outside their tribe . claude destroy sheila parent party ( it hard to believe that she smile while her parent be be hurt ) and and repeatedly stole car . sheila steal the soldier clothes and car . then she leave him in the middle of the desert where he would certainly sunburn badly and probably be bust in rank and and could likely die on that lonely nevada road . good fun . and hud find it fine to break his son heart while yell at his ex . this be not what hippy be like and not what the play describe and and be directly opposite to a love generation . i have never see a hippie beg for money . the point be to be self sufficient outside the capitalist system and not beg from it . after berger be throw in jail for ruin sheila party and claude offer to bail some out and berger insists on be bail instead and with no good plan for bail the rest that hit on sheila parent and and then hit on his own mommy . be in have always be a very spiritual point and but here it be waste on silly bride float around . even if this be part of his trip and it ruin a beautiful song . i know theyre contrast float in space with the army . but again and it totally ruin a beautiful song . while sheila and claude be skinny dipping and berger steal their clothes and laugh it be fun man even after he could see both be very annoyed . then a little later and berger do one thing that no hippie ever do . he hit claude . terrible . then they have the perfect opportunity to sing starshine at night in some beautiful sf spot with the star twinkle down and maybe work into an inventive duet . instead and the whole tribe sings it in the blazing sun speed down the road in a convertible ( steal of course ) . i be vastly disappoint with the movie in 1979 and and i like it even less now . i think it would have be possible to do a reasonably close adoption of the show and but this ain not it .