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Hairspray

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A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

★★★★☆ | Read our full Hairspray review
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What we think

Waters hits just the right balance of kitsch and sincerity, a love for the music tampered by a keen understanding of its tumultuous history.
★★★★☆ | Read in full: Hairspray film review Fedor Tot We Love Cinema

What others think

Hairspray spawned a stage musical version and a remake, but neither had the flavour of this first film.
Peter Bradshaw The Guardian
The truly radical sub-text, however, is that a heroine can be politically motivated, a good dancer, attractive to the opposite sex, and fat all at the same time.
Anne Billson Sight & Sound
Thoroughly deserving of its cult status
Kim Newman Empire

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01 Jul 1988