10.1.12

hairspray (1988)


"It's the times. They are a-changin'. Something's blowing in the wind. Fetch me my diet pills, would you, Hon?"
A young girl, Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) idolises the dancers on local tv show The Corny Collins Show, and her rise to fame when she manages to become a dancer it, and sparks off protests for intergration, in the Baltimore of 1962.
Water's breakout film, that played up the retro charm, and won him a new audience.

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