Amy Hendriks
4 months
ago
Great songs, great dances, great story/message.
Lachie Munro
almost 4 years
ago
Sing-along, bit of fun. Not on par with Grease though.
Charlie Alcock
over 5 years
ago
Travolta and Walken kept making me want it to turn into Pulp Fiction.
Jane Kenney
6 years
ago
Great songs! Great singers1! Amazing characters! Will thrill you with it's songs!
Kakra
almost 7 years
ago
8/10
Hairspray is a 2007 musical film produced by Kolaja Productions and distributed by New Line Cinema. It was released in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on July 20, 2007. The film is an adaptation of the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of the same name. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation.
Adapted from both Waters' 1988 script and Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell's book for the stage musical by screenwriter Leslie Dixon, the 2007 film version of Hairspray is directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman. Hairspray features songs from the Broadway musical written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, as well as four new Shaiman/Wittman compositions not present in the original Broadway version.
Opening to positive reviews, Hairspray met with financial success,...