Ricki Lake as Tracy Turnblad, an optimistic, aspirational teenager who hopes to dance on a TV show as well as promote integration.She then comes to the pageant, integrates The Corny Collins Show, and encourages everyone to dance in celebration. Tracy, who had won the crown but was disqualified for being in reform school, dethrones Amber after the governor of Maryland pardons her. Their plot to sabotage the Miss Auto Show 1963 pageant with a bomb hidden in Velma's towering bouffant wig literally backfires when the bomb detonates prematurely, and the Von Tussles are captured by the Baltimore police for their hate crimes. After a race riot at Tilted Acres, where The Corny Collins Show is live from that day, results in Tracy's arrest, the Von Tussles grow more defiantly opposed to racial integration. Undeterred, Tracy uses her newfound fame to advocate for racial integration, aided by Motormouth Maybelle, Corny Collins, his assistant Tammy, and her own agoraphobic, slightly overbearing, overweight mother, Edna. Seaweed later helps her break out of the house and run away, and it is implied that her parents have disowned her. Frederickson to brainwash her into dating white boys and opposing integration. This horrifies Penny's parents, Prudy and Paddy, who imprison her in her bedroom and hire quack psychiatrist Dr. They teach Tracy, Penny, and Link dance moves such as The Bird and The Dirty Boogie and Penny begins an interracial romance with Motormouth Maybelle's son, Seaweed. The students introduce Tracy to Motormouth Maybelle, an R&B record shop owner and host of the monthly "Negro Day" on The Corny Collins Show. At school, a geometry teacher brands her hairdo a "hair-don't" and sends her to the principal's office, from which Tracy is sent to special education classes, where she befriends Black classmates sent there to hold them back academically.
She is also inspired to bleach, tease, and rat her big hair into styles popular in the 1960s. Tracy's growing confidence leads to her being hired as a plus-size model for the Hefty Hideaway clothing store owned by Mr. Tracy steals Amber's boyfriend, Link Larkin, and competes against her for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963, fuelling Amber's hatred of her. Tracy’s dance moves earn her a spot as a regular on the show, infuriating the show's reigning queen, Amber Von Tussle, a mean, privileged, thin, beautiful high school classmate whose racist parents, Velma and Franklin Von Tussle, own Tilted Acres Amusement Park which bans African Americans. Penny nervously stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine Carver, is cut for being Black (the show has a "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). In Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for The Corny Collins Show, a popular Baltimore teenage dance show (based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show). In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". A second film version of Hairspray, an adaptation of the stage musical, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007, which included many changes of scripted items from the original. In 2002, the film was adapted into a Broadway musical of the same name, which won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical in 2003. It is Divine’s final film released during his lifetime, as he died three weeks after its release. 444 on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. The film received critical acclaim and ranks at No. However, it managed to attract a larger audience on home video in the early 1990s and became a cult film. Hairspray was only a moderate success upon its initial theatrical release, earning a modest gross of $8 million. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film revolves around self-proclaimed "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation. Hairspray 's PG is the least restrictive rating a Waters film has received most of his previous films were rated X by the MPAA. Hairspray was a dramatic departure from Waters's earlier works, with a much broader intended audience. Hairspray is a 1988 American comedy film written and directed by John Waters, starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller, Leslie Ann Powers, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Michael St.
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