HAIRSPRAY (1988) - Watched all of it tonight on TCM. I haven't looked at it in decades. I do listen to the soundtrack - which are all old forgotten records that JOHN WATERS dusted off and had all these people dance to... the original movie is NOT the Broadway musical (which I saw and enjoyed!) but the same story. And it is NOT that JOHN REVOLTS YA freak show movie. The original has a great soundtrack... Ridiculous constructs like a comic book and what a joyous message of acceptance! The movie is a box of candy.
Can't say I am a big John Waters fan. Intentional camp never worked for me.
i love the film i even met him in (1995) he was a nice guy i think one of the funniest things he ever said about hairspray was he accidently made a family film he didn't know how that happened and that it was never going to happen again
It's a fantasy, kitschy, but nostalgic and fond and politically correct. Unlike his previous films, this film is naive. One of the funniest bits was JOHN WATERS as the "psychiatrist".
yeah but that's okay i love the music and the dancing too the 60's is my favorite era for music and has been even as a kid
had forgotten about this 80's classic