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Hairspray


     
  Hairspray Review
Tookey's Rating
5 /10
 
Average Rating
6.07 /10
 
Starring
Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine
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Directed by: John Waters
Written by: John Waters

 
 
 
Released: 1988
   
Genre: MUSICAL
COMEDY
   
Origin: US
   
Length: 90
 
 


 

In 1962 Baltimore, a fat teenager (Ricki Lake) dreams of winning a dance competition on TV.

Reviewed by Chris Tookey

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A monument to Sixties bad taste, tacky in itself and admiring of tackiness in others. Energetic, ocasionally funny, utterly vapid, it's fun for a while; but the lack of human involvement and self-consciously asinine story don't sustain it to the end.

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