Hairspray 🎥 2007 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Overweight 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad lives in Baltimore. She and her shy best friend Penny Pingleton frequently watch The Corny Collins Show, a local teen dance television show broadcast live on the WYZT station. Several of the dancers on the show, including lead dancers Amber von Tussle and her boyfriend Link Larkin, attend Tracy and Penny’s high school. Amber’s mother Velma, the station’s manager, ensures that her daughter is prominently featured and only allows African-American dancers to appear on the show’s monthly “Negro Day”, hosted by local R&B disc jockey “Motormouth” Maybelle Stubbs. Corny reveals that one of the dancers on the show will be taking a nine-month leave of absence, so Link announces auditions for a replacement to be held at the WYZT studio the next day.

Ecstatic, Tracy skips class to attend the audition, but Velma rejects Tracy for both her size and support of integration. While in detention for cutting class, Tracy discovers the “Negro Day” youths practicing in the detention room and befriends Maybelle’s son, Seaweed. While leaving detention, Tracy inadvertently meets Link and dreams of a life with him. At a record hop, Tracy’s dance moves, taught to her by Seaweed, garner Corny’s attention, so he chooses her to join the cast. Tracy quickly becomes one of Corny’s most popular performers, threatening Amber’s chances of winning the show’s annual “Miss Teenage Hairspray” pageant the following month and her relationship with Link, who grows fonder of Tracy.

When Tracy is enlisted as the spokesgirl for a plus-size fashion boutique, she persuades her agoraphobic mother Edna to accompany her there as her agent, where both receive makeovers, sharply boosting Edna’s confidence. Tracy introduces Seaweed to Penny, and they become smitten. Later, Seaweed and his younger sister Little Inez bring Tracy, Penny, and Link to a party at Maybelle’s store. Amber anonymously calls Edna and divulges Tracy’s whereabouts.

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