Movies where the male star has beautiful floppy hair

Billy Campbell in The Rocketeer

The turn of the 80s/90s was a great period for floppy hair

Not very floppy, r1.

Floppy hair.

Mark Harmon is beautiful.. period.

Blue-eyed Jesus

Jeff Bridges still got it!

Kurt Russell..

I have floppy hair. One of my nuns used to call me Bangsy.

Hart Bochner In Supergirl

James Spader in Pretty In Pink

Oops R7, R8... Movies.. well, they both have great hair anyway.

Walk and flop - Dead Poets Society

James Spader in Sex...can not remember the name, it had something to do with video.

Keanu Reeves in Point Break.

Brad Pitt.. Legends Of The Fall..

R16 that’s just long.

You fail.

R14.. Sex, Lies and Videotape

Hugh Grant. Four Weddings and a Funeral

No, r16. There's nothing that flops over his forehead. That's where floppy happens. It's not long hair.

Another of those concepts so many of you don't get, like "dinner party" or "button-down shirt."

Oh MARY me.. so important, these differences. Gotcha!..

Yes thanks, Sex Lies and Video Tapes.

When I was young floppy hair usually meant pampered guy, just off the lake.

[quote] just off the lake

In what part of the country is this an expression?

Not "the" star perhaps but.. Jack Davenport as Peter Kingsford-Smith, in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Not from a movie, but Flopsberg.

r25 His hair is too straight to be called "floppy."

Bouncy, good hair...like seen in a shampoo commercial, with the model walking.

I'd rather see floppy cock.

The two together are perfection, r29.

Robby Benson in Ice Castles.

Best floppy hair that doesn't belong to Hugh Dancy.

Robby Benson, with hair that flops

Flop it to me, Tim O'.

Anything with Matthew Modine.

You rang?

Another Country is a great "floppy hair" movie : Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes etc.

Rupert Graves as Freddy Honeychurch owns this thread.

R37, you rang the bell the best thus far.

Ben Whishaw

You bitches rang?

r38, see r40, r37, and yes, r36.

[quote]His hair is too straight to be called "floppy."

Really? I've always thought of floppy hair as being exactly what Jack Davenport in Mr. Ripley is sporting. Long straight bangs parted to the side. Bill Pullman was the floppy hair king in his late-80s and early-90s heyday.

Bill's hair was at peak floppiness and beauty in Spaceballs

r37 and r40 are the very best examples in this thread of floppy hair.

River Phoenix in Running on Empty.

Chariots of Fire, especially Nigel Havers. His hair should have its own agent.

Dan Futterman in everything

Virtually every film that Leo did in the 90s.

Chariots of Floppage

Becoming Jane

Blue Lagoon?

R38 beat me to the paragon. Though not the "star"

Hello?

Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy in Class

Floppy-haired boy of the Day: Chandler Massey on today's episode of GOOL.

Speaking conceptually I believe some of you may be mixing up “floppy” & “foppy”...

R43 as hot Dad Dr. Harvey in CASPER (1995!) a curtain-haired Bill Pullman had to sternly ward away an equally curtained-haired tweenage Devon Sawa from courting his lovely raven screen daughter Christina Ricci. It was a battle of the moptops.

Josh Hartnett in the Virgin Suicides

And then there's candy-flossy hair.

Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer

I thought the guy in OP's photo was Rick Perry.

Hello

I'll see your Dustin Hoffman and raise you one Al Pacino

Floppy center-part - Cale Tucker from Titan AE (voiced by Matt Damon).

Good Will Hunting

My time is COME so one side, people.

Jordan Brower in SPEEDWAY JUNKY and 95% of his IMDB credits before he retired.

No-one ever pulled off the tragique bus-shelter!Trade bangs like Jord. NO-ONE.

^^^^

R65 all Don Bluth heroes have floppy hair

Even qwerty approves! (Last one, enjoy it)

Aaron Eckhart in that movie he did with that Welsh ingenue

Verging on long but Matt Barr in The Layover

Hugh Grant and James Wilby in Maurice

William Katt in [italic]Carrie[/italic]. I want to reach into the screen and run my fingers through it.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Clive Owen with matching flops in Bent

Elvis.. Jailhouse Rock

R72 Matt Barr had the most perfect length for this thread when he played Johnse (“JOANSEE”) in HATFIELDS & McCOYS.

He looked beautiful (and exactly like my unrequited HS straight-crush) in this role.

But his hair bypasses his forehead, r77. He is beautiful, though. Especially under all that clothing.

I so wanted straight, floppy hair when I was a teenager! I wanted that Dorothy Hamill type hair. Now, I'm just grateful that I still have (a lot of) hair.

King of the floppy hair was Parker Stevenson and while he was mostly known for TV work he did appear in a few movies.

[quote]I so wanted straight, floppy hair when I was a teenager!

Floppy hair isn't straight. I mean, compared to curly or kinky, it's straightER, but floppy is its own thing.

Tom Everett Scott in That Thing You Do.

^ Floppo perfetto ^

OP seems to have a definition of floppy hair that differs from what some others of us have. He seems to think of thick bangs almost covering the eyes as floppy hair, others here see it as hair that moves (or flops) from one side of the head to over the forehead and/or an eye.

Sadly, these are the kind of differences that tear countries apart.

I have always thought the OP's definition was the only definition of "floppy hair." To me (us?), it's a textural thing, characterized by men with bangs that hang naturally over their foreheads, best exemplified by r82, many of the men in Chariots of Fire, r40, r37, r4.

My hair grew like all of theirs. It is not straight. It is what my mother always called "floppy." I was her "floppy-haired prince." My brother, who is 18 months younger, had hair like Matt Damon or Leo or Brad Pitt. It grew straight rather than floppy. He was her other prince, hair texture not included in her pet name for him. She called him "O," because he had a perfectly round head.

Some of you have a different, more inclusive, definition, as often happens on Datalounge. Consider the button-down shirt.

Andy Murray (he of today's x-ray dick) had floppy hair until his mother made him cut it before Wimbledon in 2005. He has since sported a fivehead.

Antony Hamilton in "Nocturna."

John Davidson.. he did movies and TV (can't find a good example). He has very thick, foppish hair in the front. He still has it...turned all white and still thick and beautiful.

Strudel

^^Oops..*floppish*.. at R88

Most of Hugh Grant's career has rested on his floppy hair.

Floppage

Chris O'Donnell in Scent of a Woman.

Perfect floppage, r93. It hurts to see him now on that CBS procedural.

Matt Dillon 1979

Floppy Matt Dillon. So beautiful, no matter how he wore his hair.

French division: Jean-Pierre Leaud. Especially in Truffaut's films.

Also: Jean Marais. Especially in "Les Parents Terribles" and "Orphee."

Leaud, oui. Un floppeur.

Jonny Bailey could have floppy hair, but chooses not to.

Cary Elwes & Michael York

Floppy hair is mandatory in Merchant Ivory films. No English boy would be without it!

And...

Mt Yorks flop

Not a movie, but there's a lot of floppy hair in this video...especially at the 3:00 mark.

Paul Mercurio, Strictly Ballroom.

R73 I sigh wistfully whenever I think about MAURICE. The hair-styling was splendid.

I win.

R108, that look screams hairspray to me, not floppy.

70's and 80's hair!

Add, most of these to the rim thread too!

Seven Years In Tibet

Aaron

You guys have an unusual definition of "floppy" hair. I think of "floppy" hair as being bored straight and longish, to the point that it "flops" in the eyes. Sorta like Dorothy Hamil's.

God, I CRAVED that kind of hair as a young gayling. I even made my saint of a mother straighten my hair for me chemically to no avail. It was straight but didn't flop. FYI, I'm a white guy with medium to coarse brown hair.

Denis Leary.. The Ref

^^^.....

Shit.. R114 and R115, can't get the links to work..

R103, I think you missed the OP's topic a bit.

My contribution isn’t a film so I do hope OP will indulge it; Nat Simpson, the young Inamorato from 1990’s British soap Brookside played by John Sandford, sported glossy black hair in wavy falls. His dreamy haircut & pretty appearance were very much part of Nat’s character, chosen by the writer as a way to stir sympathy for him (in-story Nat had a love-affair with his sister).

I bet that's how OP's dad combed his hair.

In considering the "bangs flopping on the forehead" v. "long hair parted in the middle that flops on the sides" issue, it occurs to me that the first definition is an earlier definition from the time before men wore their hair long, i.e., the early 1960 v. later in the decade, and on into the '70s and '80s. The ones who think floppiness is limited to the bangs, and never was meant to consider long, center-parted hair, are probably older.