Hairspray

Adam Shankman's adaptation of the 2005 musical stars John Travolta, Queen Latifah and Nikki Blonsky. Teen Tracy Turnblad's regular cultural highlight is a local television music and dance programme called The Corny Collins Show. And, like all her friends, she dreams of having a chance to appear on it. However, this is Baltimore and it is 1962 - and Tracy's both overweight and, worse, has liberal attitudes to race relations, which don't sit comfortably with the segregationist views of the show's producer. But, could Tracy's ambitions for not only appearing on the show, but also racially integrating it, receive a fillip when she meets the son of Motormouth Maybelle, host of the monthly 'Negro Day' edition of the show?, Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show. (S), This smash musical adaptation of John Waters' 1988 cult hit is an upbeat song-and-dance fest about a plump teen (newcomer Nikki Blonsky) who shakes things up on a TV dance show in 1962 Baltimore and offers up a lesson on racial tolerance. John Travolta costars in a well-padded fat suit as her plus-sized mother. Rikki Lake, who starred in Waters' original, has a cameo as a talent agent, and Waters appears as a flasher. Zac Efron, Michelle Pfeiffer, Amanda Bynes.