Hairspray overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters coming of age in 1962 Baltimore, where "The Corny Collins Show" is the most popular American Bandstand-type program, watched by hundreds of young dreamers each day after school. Being chosen to dance on it is the ultimate status symbol and every young girl's dream, and Tracy improbably wins a featured spot when she infiltrates a dance contest and makes a better impression than her favored rival, the catty Amber von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick).
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Movie Details:
- Director: John Waters
- Studio: New Line Cinema
- Year: 1988
- Run Time: 94 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Comedy
- Filmed in: Color
