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Hairspray Director: John Waters Cast: Ricki Lake, Michael St. Gerard, Divine, Colleen Fitzpatrick

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  • DVD Release Date: 11/05/2002
  • Original Release: 1988
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 17,925

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Closed Caption; Widescreen version of the film; Original theatrical trailer; Ricki Lake joins John Waters for commentary

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Main Titles [3:29]
2. Cookin' With Corny Collins [5:48]
3. All About Amber [4:51]
4. The Record Hop [8:59]
5. In the Spotlight [8:45]
6. A Star Is Born [4:09]
7. A Hair Don't [4:24]
8. Dodge Ball Romance [2:05]
9. Hefty Hideaway Girl [2:59]
10. Motormouth Mabel's [4:35]
11. "Integration Now" [5:13]
12. Black Baltimore [9:02]
13. Tilted Acres [5:05]
14. Race Riot! [1:42]
15. Film at Eleven [3:27]
16. Pickets and Pontiacs [6:15]
17. Free as a Bird [2:55]
18. The Bug [2:21]
19. End Credits [5:29]

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Editorial Reviews

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). Always able to have fun, even when she's being mocked by the jealous popular girls, Tracy wins the affections of Amber's boyfriend and soon begins leading a movement to integrate the dance show, which has previously featured blacks only in a once-weekly theme night. She is arrested following a demonstration at a local theme park owned by Amber's father (Sonny Bono), who subscribes to the same theory of race relations as "The Corny Collins Show." Tracy's adventures are also filtered through her loving but eccentric parents (Divine and Jerry Stiller) and involve a humorous cultural clash with pot-smoking beatniks (Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora). ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide

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Equally as funny as the firstby san_dan

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February 16, 2009: Although I will never rate this version of "Hairspray" higher than the Riki Lake version I feel as though it is definitely almost as funny. The best part is that while it does not change the overall plot of the movie the writers of the script changes just enough to not make the viewer feel as though they are just not watching an exact duplicate of the first movie. I strongly reccommend watching this movie.

The usual aspects of a cult film.by Anonymous

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September 11, 2008: John Waters shows off more of his weirdness in this movie about a dancing show during the civil rights movement. It's alright, nothing special, and nowhere near as good as the praise it gets. And to the less than intelligent person who complained about the Broadway songs not being in the movie...hahahahhaahahha, the broadway play was BASED on this movie, fyi.


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