Hairspray (1988)
-
Showtimes
-
Movie Details
-
Pre-order your tickets now
-
Pre-order your tickets now
-
-
Pre-order your tickets now
-
Pre-order your tickets now
Videos & Photos
- Official Trailer (02:09)
Movie Info & Cast
Synopsis
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Cast
- Sonny Bono
- Ruth Brown
- Divine
- Debbie Harry
- Ricki Lake
- Jerry Stiller
- Vitamin C
- Michael St. Gerard
- Leslie Ann Powers
- Clayton Prince
Letterboxd User Reviews
3.7
131.6K
31.4K
33.2K
- Sep 20, 2018
john waters as a therapist trying to make penny like white boys...... he has the range
Madison 🎭Mar 18, 2021what if straight people were gay
mary margaretApr 27, 2018a lady hits link larkin in the knees with her purse and he’s HOSPITALIZED and ends up in a WHEELCHAIR this movie is the most
nora - Oct 20, 2023
took me an hour to realise that no one was gonna sing in this movie
imogen 🤍Jul 9, 2020Certainly gets points for being weirder (and therefore, purposefully funnier) than the musical remake, but it's still got some of the racial misfires (not nearly as many though) and the characters don't feel as fulfilled to me. I don't care about Link Larkin or Corny…
demi adejuyigbeMar 18, 2021queering heterosexuality
Kyle - Oct 10, 2015
"I wish I was at a hootenanny in Harlem!" One of the most incisive depictions of a community in flux and the power of popular art to create change ever, full of reactionary politics, opportunistic media, institutional racism, and class privilege all fighting a losing…
matt lynchApr 3, 2023Bro knees healed expeditiously soon as Tracy got out of jail.
JerryApr 8, 2016"finally all of baltimore knows, i'm big, blonde, and beautiful!" was absolutely the most comforting thing to hear when i was a fat blonde teenager (living in baltimore!) who felt like a hideous unlovable freak i will always love u, hairspray!!!
single white femalien
Queue Community Reviews
84%
Community 1,043
Top Reviews
- Lilah Roldan likedHairspray
This movie was good but I love the 2007 version way better. 7/10
sophie bramley lovedHairspraythis movie always leaves me with energy
Nina Floch lovedHairspraythis film is so yassified
- katiana lovedHairspray
amazing movie
Trevoe likedHairsprayOver all I like this movie. I liked how the 2007 version differs from this one almost making them different stories and movies all together. I am biased because I saw the 2007 version first I do like it better but this is a great original piece. 6.5/10
Mcfly1202 lovedHairsprayThis is just a great time. Love the era and the music. Can’t help but tap your feet to Feel the Beat, get into the drama of the race riots and beatniks. Or phrases like checkboard chick.
- Easton Speese likedHairspray
I love this way more than the 2007 remake. Has a great soundtrack, the writing is campy with a good bit of comedy, and the main cast is amazing.
Emma likedHairspraySo so great, Divine was fabulous, John Waters is always fab, and that bug dress that Tracy wore at the end was iconic
Yoshi likedHairsprayI think it did a good job, touching on discrimination. And I’ve heard the movie maker is a gay icon so 😝
Atom Users Reviews
Metacritic
While it’s corny by design, Hairspray also aims to get at something truthful, about the various kinds of prejudice weighing down the city circa 1963, and how youthful optimism and music made a difference, if only in the lives of those kids craving some kind of diverse, progressive community.
Noel Murray
The Dissolve
Basically the movie is a bubble-headed series of teenage crises and crushes, alternating with historically accurate choreography of such forgotten dances as the Madison and the Roach.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Full Screen Image Viewer
Target Exclusive Showing
Don't Have The Password?