Hairspray / New Line Cinema presents, in association with Stanley F. Buchthal, a Robert Shaye production ; a John Waters film ; producer, Rachel Talalay ; directed and written by John Waters.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: N6099 | New Line Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Publication details: [Burbank, Calif.] : New Line Home Entertainment, ©2002, ©1988.Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9780780640832
- 0780640837
- Hairspray (Motion picture : 1988)
- Cinematography, David Insley ; film editors, Janice Hampton, Charles Roggero ; original music, Kenny Vance ; choreographer, Edward Love ; production designer, Vincent Peranio ; art direction, Vincent Peranio ; costume designer, Van Smith ; executive producers, Sara Risher, Robert Shaye ; co-producers, Stanley F. Buchthal, John Waters.
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY HAIRSPRA | Available | 33111010431449 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Forever interested in the kitsch built into past eras, director John Waters chooses the TV dance show craze of the early '60s for his playful focus in Hairspray. Ricki Lake plays Tracy Turnblad, just one of several alliteratively named characters coming of age in 1962 Baltimore, where "The Corny Collins Show" is the most popular American Bandstand-type program, watched by hundreds of young dreamers each day after school. Being chosen to dance on it is the ultimate status symbol and every young girl's dream, and Tracy improbably wins a featured spot when she infiltrates a dance contest and makes a better impression than her favored rival, the catty Amber von Tussle (Colleen Fitzpatrick). Always able to have fun, even when she's being mocked by the jealous popular girls, Tracy wins the affections of Amber's boyfriend and soon begins leading a movement to integrate the dance show, which has previously featured blacks only in a once-weekly theme night. She is arrested following a demonstration at a local theme park owned by Amber's father (Sonny Bono), who subscribes to the same theory of race relations as "The Corny Collins Show." Tracy's adventures are also filtered through her loving but eccentric parents (Divine and Jerry Stiller) and involve a humorous cultural clash with pot-smoking beatniks (Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora). ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound or stereo. surround sound; widescreen presentation (aspect ratio: 1.85:1).
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988.
Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Debbie Harry, Ricki Lake, Jerry Stiller, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Michael St. Gerard, Leslie Ann Powers, Clayton Prince, Mink Stole, Shawn Thompson, Ric Ocasek, Pia Zadora.
Cinematography, David Insley ; film editors, Janice Hampton, Charles Roggero ; original music, Kenny Vance ; choreographer, Edward Love ; production designer, Vincent Peranio ; art direction, Vincent Peranio ; costume designer, Van Smith ; executive producers, Sara Risher, Robert Shaye ; co-producers, Stanley F. Buchthal, John Waters.
Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.
MPAA rating: PG.
Special features: original theatrical trailer; Ricki Lake joins John Waters for commentary.