Hairspray Movie Overview

Hairspray - Overview

Genre: Comedy

Opened: Feb 26, 1988 Run Time: 1hr 30min

Cast: Sonny Bono Ruth Brown Divine Divine

Director: John Waters

Producer: Rachel Talalay Rachel Talalay

Executive Producer: Robert Shaye Sara Risher

Synopsis

Hairspray: When Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake), an overweight teen, auditions for a spot on a popular teen dance show, she beats out the spiteful Amber von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick), winning over Amber's boyfriend (Michael St. Gerard) in the process. After meeting some black students at her school, Tracy begins to push for more racial integration on the dance show. This gets her into trouble on many sides, especially with Amber's pushy parents (Sonny Bono, ... Read More

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Box Office Data
# Weeks	9

# Total Gross	$6.7M

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Hairspray

Studio:

New Line Cinema

Studio:

New Line Cinema

Domestic Theatrical Distributor:

New Line Cinema

Foreign Theatrical Distributor:

Palace Pictures

Foreign Theatrical Distributor:

Capital Cinema

Foreign Theatrical Distributor:

Hoyts Distribution

Domestic Video Distributor:

New Line Home Entertainment

Worldwide Video Distributor:

RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video

Video Distributor:

VCM

Domestic Theatrical Distributor:

New Line Cinema

Cast & Crew (12)

Sonny Bono

Ruth Brown

Divine

Reviews (22)

sirpant, Flixster

Classic John Waters. It?s very funny and probably did do a good job educating people about integration. Ricki Lake is really good and Divine is still, very sadl...

miste..., Flixster

An amazing John Waters masterpiece that combines his own style (working with his weird, "unique" friends and being edgy but hilarious) with Hollywood mainstream...

Hairspray - Overview