Hair, Let the Sun Shine In (2007) (SIFF) - C

"Hair, Let the Sun Shine In" is a documentary about the musical "Hair" and it's influence. The movie is a mixture of clips from performances in the 70's and interviews with surviving cast members and producers. Now I've never seen "Hair" as a whole, although I'm familiar with some famous scenes and music from the musical. This may have contributed to my feeling that the documentary was fairly light. You had lots of people talking about how important and influential they felt "Hair" was, but their reasons seemed fuzzy to me, and they were all people intimately involved in the musical, so that section felt like a puff piece to me. It wasn't until the second half of the documentary that my interest was piqued a little when the movie started exploring the darker side of "Hair." Quite a few people involved with the musical died very young (usually from AIDS,) and there was some nasty incidents with people being given "B-12" shots that turned out to be laced with amphetamines. There was enough interesting stuff that I can't say I though the movie sucked, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, except for a die hard fan of "Hair."

Final Grade: C