Hairspray
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings
- Starring: Divine, Ruth Brown, Sonny Bono
- Summary: In Hairspray, Tracy Turnblad uses her huge hair, big grin and great moves to become the queen of the local TV dance revue, using her newfound popularity to fight for integration in 1962's Baltimore. (New Line Cinema)
- Director: John Waters
- Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Music
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90Hairspray is a deliriously fast and funny satire of the '60s that marks John Waters' best shot yet at mainstream audiences. [25 Feb 1988, p.1]
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80The actors are best when they avoid exaggeration and remain weirdly sincere. That way, they do nothing to break the vibrant, even hallucinogenic spell of Mr. Waters's nostalgia.
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80Thoroughly charming, and thoroughly deserving of its cult status.
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50There are some nice things to be said about Hairspray, the John Waters movie which opened over the weekend, but not enough to explain all you've been hearing about it. It's a fairly run-of-the-mill teenage dance movie, set in Baltimore in the early '60s, with a certain oddball humor that only occasionally lifts it out of its class. [29 Feb 1988, p.F3]
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KellyW.9It is a wonderful movie if you love musicals. Also if you like love stories or just teenage life stories.....you'll LOVE the movie. I SURE DID!!
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