Hairspray
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In 1962 Baltimore, all the kids watch the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, and her best friend Penny run home to watch and drool over teenage heartthrob Link Larkin. When one of the "Council Kids" goes on a leave of
… More »In 1962 Baltimore, all the kids watch the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, and her best friend Penny run home to watch and drool over teenage heartthrob Link Larkin. When one of the "Council Kids" goes on a leave of absence, Tracy auditions to be the replacement, is sent to detention for skipping school, and thereby meets Seaweed--who shows her how to really shake 'em down. Helped by Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, and her parents, Tracy sets out to integrate the show ... without denting her 'do!
« LessWinner Hollywood Film Award for Ensemble of the Year, Hollywood Film Festival 2007
Winner Hollywood Film Award for Ensemble of the Year, Hollywood Film Festival 2007
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Based on the 1988 screenplay "Hairspray" written by John Waters and the 2002 musical stage play "Hairspray" book by Mark O'Donnell, Thomas Meehan [with] music by Marc Shaiman [and] lyrics by Scott Wittman, Marc Shaiman
Videodisc release of the 2007 motion picture
Accompanied by a six song CD sampler
CD. Good morning Baltimore -- You can't stop the beat -- Without love -- Run and tell that -- Mama I'm a big girl now -- Come so far (Got so far to go)
Special features include: two commentaries; five featurettes: "Inside the recording booth" ; "It's Hairspray"; "Playing Tracy" ; Transform Travolta to Turnblad" ; "Search for Tracy."
DVD ; NTSC ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; widescreen ; dual layer format
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Add a Commenta joy to watch. never mind zack effron and his huge ego (no one talks about him now, do they?) funny, entertaining, great music. tracey was fabulous with an amazing voice. john travolta as a woman? kinda grossed out at first, considering how hot he is in real life, but he actually did an amazing job. big and cuddly.
luv it ................
The movie didn't include all the songs from the original musical in which is too bad. Wonderful wonderful performances of John Travolta as Edna and seductive sexy performance of Michelle Pfeiffer as Velma Von Tussle. I still think the original Broadway show is better.
luv da muziq n da grate cazt in it
lots of lively tunes! Well done - John Travolta as a women? He pulled it off very well!
Stick with John Waters' version. Ricky Lake made a better Tracy Turnblad and Divine outshone Travolta as Tracy's mother. I say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
A musical you'll want to watch over and over again!
An OK film, fairly well done, though it did get boring and almost abnocious at points. I guess the biggest reason that I was interested in it is that it was filmed less that a block from my house, but I guess it was pretty good film.
Not good, not bad.
Skip it. I never thought the original was any good and that's simply because, as a musical, the songs should be good - they were not. The story is tiresome as well.