Hairspray (2007)

Actors: Jerry Stiller (actor), Jayne Eastwood (actress), Bruce McFee (actor), Adam Shankman (actor), Christopher Walken (actor), John Waters (actor), James Marsden (actor), Zac Efron (actor), Marc Shaiman (actor), Paul Dooley (actor), Neil Crone (actor), John Travolta (actor), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Allison Janney (actress), Anne Fletcher (actress),

Plot: Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show.....without denting her 'do!

Keywords: 1960s, african-american, agent, alarm-clock, applause, audition, backstage, baltimore-maryland, band-class, bar
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Who's who behind the do? Get ready for something big July 20th! You Can't Stop The Beat...July 2007 This Summer, when you follow your own beat, there is no limit to how far you can go. It was a time of tradition, a time of values, and a time...to shake things up. In July 2007, are you ready for something big? Remember when a movie can make you dream, make you dance, and make you feel on top of the world? When you follow your own beat, the world will follow you. On July 20th, the summer blockbuster is getting a whole new look. For anyone who wanted something bigger, there comes a time to break all the rules.

Quotes:

Edna Turnblad: Penny, get home before your mother shoots you.

Velma Von Tussle: [after "New Girl in Town"] How dare you pick the same song!::Motormouth Maybelle: They wrote it.

Motormouth Maybelle: [watching Edna walk in] If we get any more white people in here, this is gonna be a suburb.

Motormouth Maybelle: Well, looks like y'all took a step outta bounds.::[to Seaweed]::Motormouth Maybelle: Who've we got here?::Seaweed: Mom, I want you to meet my new friends. This here is Link, Tracy Turnblad...::Tracy Turnblad: [interrupts] This is just so afro-tastic!::Seaweed: And this young lady right here, is Penny Pingleton.::Penny Pingleton: I'm very pleased and scared to be here.::Motormouth Maybelle: Now, honey, we got more reason to be scared on your street.

Edna Turnblad: Imagine! My little girl... regular, at last.

Link Larkin: I was just at home, practicing my new twist on The Twist, when I overheard it on the news. I can't believe Tracy savagely bludgeoned an Eagle Scout. That's just not like her.::Edna Turnblad: But it's not true! I was there! He didn't even bleed.::Link Larkin: I shoulda been there, beside her. I can't sleep. I can't eat...::Edna Turnblad: You can't eat? Well, come on in and worry with us. I'll make you some pork.

Amber von Tussel: [on the phone with Edna, disguising her voice] My name is Mike.::Edna Turnblad: [off-camera] Mike?::Amber von Tussel: Yes, Mike.::Edna Turnblad: Mike who?::Amber von Tussel: [slips back into her normal voice] It's MIKE! [catches herself, coughs] Anyway... I'm calling because I have some information about your daughter's whereabouts.::Edna Turnblad: What?::Amber von Tussel: Right now, as we speak, your daughter has entered a hotbed of moral... turpentine.

Tracy Turnblad: I'm a bad, bad girl who needs to be punished.

Edna Turnblad: [singing] You can't stop my happiness, 'cuz I like the way I am. And you just can't stop my knife and fork when I see a Christmas ham! And if you don't like the way I look, then I just don't give a damn!

Penny Pingleton: [after Tracy is rejected by Velma and the Council Members] I think they secretly liked you.

Hairspray (1988)

Actors: John Waters (director), John Waters (producer), Robert Shaye (producer), John Waters (writer), George Stover (actor), Ricki Lake (actress), Mink Stole (actress), John Waters (actor), Deborah Harry (actress), Sonny Bono (actor), Vincent De Paul (actor), Mark Oliver (actor), Jerry Stiller (actor), Charles Roggero (editor), Divine (actor),

Plot: 'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.

Keywords: 1960s, baltimore-maryland, black-activist, camp, campy, civil-rights, convertible, cross-cultural-relations, cult-director, cult-film
Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance,
Taglines: It's way beyond Grease. Baltimore, 1962. The heyday of hair-dos and hair-don'ts, Heartthrobs and hefty girls, hot dates and hip talkers, beatniks and hair hoppers, and one magical potion that keeps it all together. Get Back To Your Roots! 1962... JFK was in The White House... John Glenn was in orbit... Cadillacs had fins... Beehives were in... And girls really knew how to tease! A Comedy By John Waters The 60's Comedy That Shows No Mercy! The world was in a mess... but their hair was perfect!! A movie with a beat you can laugh to!

Quotes:

Amber Van Tussle: Do you relate to the music of Leslie Gore?::Nadine: Look, she ain't no James Brown... but I can dance to Lawrence Welk if I have to.

L'il Inez: Segregation never, integration now.

Prudence: Penny Pingleton, you know you are punished. From now on you're wearing a giant P on your blouse EVERY DAY to school so that the whole world knows that Penny Pingleton is permanently, positively, punished.

Beatnik Chick: When I'm high, I AM Odetta. Let's get naked and smoke.

Motormouth Maybelle: Oh Papa Tooney. We've got a Looney.::Prudence Pingleton: Don't you try to cast one of your voodoo spells on me, native woman.

Geometry Teacher: Tracy Turnblad, once again your ratted hair is preventing another student's geometry education.::Tracy Turnblad: It's feathered, not ratted.::Geometry Teacher: Whatever you call it, it's a hair-don't.

Tracy Turnblad: I'm an integrationist. We shall overcome someday.::Beatnik Chick: Not with that hair, you won't.

Tracy Turnblad: How do you get your hair so straight and so flat?::Beatnik Chick: With an iron, man. I play my bongos, listen to Odetta, and then I iron my hair, dig?

Wilbur: Tracy, we all have responsibilities in life. You may think owning the Hardy-Har joke shop is all drudgery; unwrapping dribble glasses, checking doggy doo, but I wuv it.

Amber Von Tussle: Aren't you a little fat for the show?::Tracy Turnblad: I'm sure many of the other home viewers out there are pleasantly plump or chunky.::Amber Von Tussle: Come on. The show's not filmed in Cinemascope.