Hairspray (Blu-ray) PG
The world was in a mess... but their hair was perfect!!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 4, 2014
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ricki Lake & Divine | |
Performer: | Jerry Stiller, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Sonny Bono, Deborah Harry, Ruth Brown, Josh Charles, Leslie Ann Powers, Clayton Prince, Michael St. Gerard, Holter Graham, Mink Stole, Pia Zadora & Ric Ocasek | |
Directed by | John Waters | |
Edited by | Janice Hampton | |
Screenwriting by | John Waters | |
Composition by | Kenny Vance | |
Cinematography by | David Insley | |
Produced by | Rachel Talalay | |
Executive Production by | Robert Shaye & Sara Risher |
Entertainment Reviews:
The shock Waters's cinema offers, then, is not transcendent, but almost reflexive, implicating the viewer in the awkward complexities of his own humanity and forcing him to either celebrate it or run screaming away.
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Reverse Shot
Rating: 4/5 --
Perhaps Waters' best known movie.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Waters tones down his usual excesses, but his mischievous black sense of humour is still very much to the fore in this affectionate salute to Z-grade teen movies.
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Radio Times
When Divine's Edna Turnblad is on-screen in the sleeveless dresses she's partial to, the movie has something like the lunacy of a W. C. Fields in drag.
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New Yorker
Waters' most hygienically commercial film is a Retro schlock-fancier's delight.
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Time Out
...A deliriously fast and funny satire of the '60s....HAIRSPRAY is a triumph of camp sensibility at its most perceptive and least precious...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
A kitschy teen fantasy you can dance to.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
Baltimore, 1962. Ample, energetic teen Tracy Turnblad (Ricki Lake) wants nothing more than to get on hip local TV dance program THE CORNY COLLINS SHOW. When she finally gets her way, her lively dance moves and bubbly personality are met with unexpected popularity, along with the ire of a fellow dancer, scheming Amber Von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick). Furthermore, when she witnesses firsthand the terrible state of race relations in Baltimore, Tracy becomes an outspoken advocate for the desegregation of THE CORNY COLLINS SHOW.
John Waters's first PG-rated film is also his most sweet-natured and accessible. Based on his appreciation of the real-life 1960s Baltimore dance program THE BUDDY DEANE SHOW, Waters's affection for the era and attention to authenticity shines through. Lake, in her first film performance, radiates charm and enthusiasm. Divine, in his last (dual) role, appears as both Tracy's mother, Edna, and dastardly TV station manager Arvin Hodgepile. As if that weren't enough, an inspired cast of cameos (Pia Zadora, Ric Ocasek, Waters himself) and a virtual instruction manual of faddish period dances and their accompanying songs serve only to make the deal even sweeter.
John Waters's first PG-rated film is also his most sweet-natured and accessible. Based on his appreciation of the real-life 1960s Baltimore dance program THE BUDDY DEANE SHOW, Waters's affection for the era and attention to authenticity shines through. Lake, in her first film performance, radiates charm and enthusiasm. Divine, in his last (dual) role, appears as both Tracy's mother, Edna, and dastardly TV station manager Arvin Hodgepile. As if that weren't enough, an inspired cast of cameos (Pia Zadora, Ric Ocasek, Waters himself) and a virtual instruction manual of faddish period dances and their accompanying songs serve only to make the deal even sweeter.
Keywords:
Campy
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Cult Film
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Dance
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Race Relations
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Teenage
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Recommended
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Nostalgic
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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