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| New Line Cinema | Release Date: February 26, 1988 |
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]
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Hairspray 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]
See Hairspray. It's light and airy, but it will stick around: the first aerosol movie. [29 Feb 1988, p.101]
The strangest thing about his latest picture, Hairspray, is how very sweet and cheerful it is. In his own weird way, Mr. Waters has captured the gleeful garishness of the early '60s, when high-school girls wore demure bows in their ratted hair and deadened their lips with palest pink lip gloss -- and believed that racial harmony was inevitable if teens of all flavors could dance together on TV. [25 Feb 1988, p.1]
There 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]
Aug 15, 2007
It 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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May 25, 2019
I Kinda Love All the Songs from This Movie, Even this song, You Can't stop the Beat, I Still Love It
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May 21, 2022
Musical expression knows no bounds. Hairspray is both classic and cutting-edge. The picture is more profound than one may expect because of John Waters' attention to modern social problems and oppressed people in society.
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