Information
| Year: | 2007 |
| Rating: | 7.2(41461) |
| Listed in: | Comedy, Musical, Romance |
| Directed by: | Adam Shankman |
| Actors: | John Travolta Christopher Walken James Marsden Michelle Pfeiffer Amanda Bynes Queen Latifah |
| "Get ready for something big July 20th!" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Adam Shankman | |
| Actors | |
| John Travolta | as Edna Turnblad |
| Christopher Walken | as Wilbur Turnblad |
| James Marsden | as Corny Collins |
| Zac Efron | as Link Larkin |
| Elijah Kelley | as Seaweed |
| Paul Dooley | as Mr. Spritzer |
| Jerry Stiller | as Mr. Pinky |
| Darren Frost | as Cameraman |
| John Waters | as Flasher |
| Joe Parro | as Teacher |
| Nick Loren | as Cop Nick |
| Bryan Hindle | as Link's Backup Singer |
| Sheldon Smith | as Link's Backup Singer |
| Greg Farkas | as Link's Backup Singer/Teen |
| Bruce McFee | as Police Chief |
| Christian Hagen | as Male TV Reporter |
| John Andersen | as News Anchorman |
| Neil Crone | as Cop at Protest |
| George King | as Mr. Flak |
| James Kirchner | as Science Geek Teacher |
| Brendan Wall | as Male Cop on TV |
| Ted Ludzik | as Police Sergeant at Protest |
| Ron Pardo | as Good Morning Baltimore Host |
| Seth Howard | as Stage Manager |
| Adam Shankman | as Talent Agent |
| Marc Shaiman | as Talent Agent |
| Scott Wittman | as Talent Agent |
| Joey Pizzi | as Driving Instructor |
| Zachary Woodlee | as Smoking Teacher |
| Walli Woo | as Barking Dog |
| Nick Baga | as Sketch |
| Curtis Holbrook | as Brad |
| J.P. Ferreri | as Joey |
| Spencer Liff | as Mikey |
| Phillip Spaeth | as Fender |
| Jesse Weafer | as IQ/Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Corey Gorewicz | as Bix |
| Josh Feldman | as Jesse/Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Everett Smith | as Paulie/Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Jason Dolphin | as Tyrone |
| Anthony Carr | as Duane |
| Chris Andrew Robinson | as Jermaine |
| Shawn Byfield | as Little Mo |
| Shane Simpson | as Skillet |
| Jamal Sims | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Damon Butler | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Stephen Boss | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Marc Spaulding | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Reggie Jackson | as Record Hop Dancer |
| Tramaine Montell Ford | as Record Hop Dancer |
| Daniel Dyer | as Record Hop Dancer |
| Sal Scozzari | as Good Morning Baltimore Dancer/Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Gerry Mendicino | as Drunk |
| Nick Settimi | as Record Store Owner |
| Kyle Golemba | as Teen |
| Jeffrey James | as Gawky Kid |
| Sammy Rosen | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Stephen Findlay | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Mike Cota | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Dennis Lupien | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Serge Kushnier | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Austin Di Iulio | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Chad McFadden | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Ted Banfalvi | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Shaun Amyot | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Blaine Totten | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Glen Kerr | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Paul Gordon | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Gerard McIsaac | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Josh Epstein | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Derek Gilroy | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| A. Frank Ruffo | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Darcy Evans | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Charles Seminerio | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Marc Kimelman | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Larry Mannell | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Wally Michaels | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Matthew Caruso | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| John de Klein | as Extra |
| Dondraico Johnson | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Keith Pruitt | as Leader of Rock Band |
| David Webster | as Telephone Operator |
| Actresses | |
| Michelle Pfeiffer | as Velma Von Tussle |
| Amanda Bynes | as Penny Pingleton |
| Queen Latifah | as Motormouth Maybelle |
| Brittany Snow | as Amber Von Tussle |
| Allison Janney | as Prudy Pingleton |
| Nikki Blonsky | as Tracy Turnblad |
| Taylor Parks | as Little Inez |
| Jayne Eastwood | as Miss Wimsey |
| Geri Hall | as Good Morning Baltimore Hostess |
| Ricki Lake | as Talent Agent |
| Anne Fletcher | as Nurse |
| Laura Edwards | as Vicky |
| Becca Sweitzer | as Darla |
| Cassie Silva | as Brenda |
| Tiffany Engen | as Noreen |
| Brooke Engen | as Doreen |
| Sarah Jayne Jensen | as Shelley |
| Hayley Podschun | as Tammy |
| Tabitha Lupien | as Becky |
| Kelly Fletcher | as Lou Ann |
| Ariel Reid | as Rhonda |
| Whitney Brown | as Hoo Hoo |
| Sarah Francis | as Janetta |
| Starr Domingue | as Pearl |
| Jade Anderson | as Stooie |
| Rhonda Roberts | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Jennifer Abbey | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Sherisse Springer | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Vanessa Cobham | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Eboni Nichols | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Holly Hyman | as Maybelle's Store Dancer |
| Arike Rice | as Dynamites |
| Tanee McCall | as Dynamites |
| Nadine Ellis | as Dynamites |
| Khetanya Henderson | as Record Hop Dancer |
| Loriel Hennington | as Record Hop Dancer |
| Kristen Munro | as Record Hop Dancer |
| Ingrid Gaynor | as Record Hop Dancer |
| Stacey Martin | as Record Hop Dancer |
| Alison Smyth | as Auditionee |
| Christine Moore | as Auditionee |
| Emily Andrews | as Auditionee |
| Julianne Jackson | as Auditionee |
| Laura Lawson | as Auditionee |
| Melissa Leifer | as Auditionee |
| Janelle Hutchison | as Hairdresser |
| Jenny Parsons | as Hairdresser |
| Susan Henley | as Hairdresser |
| Tiffany Green | as Mr. Pinky's Customer |
| Rachael Dolan | as Mr. Pinky's Customer |
| Kristina Uranowski | as Mr. Pinky's Customer |
| Charlotte Szivak | as Mr. Pinky's Customer |
| Deborah Overes | as Mr. Pinky's Customer |
| Mary McCandless | as Mr. Pinky's Seamstress |
| Sharron Matthews | as Mr. Pinky's Cashier |
| Carla Guiliani | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Chantelle Leonardo | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Melissa Williams | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Krystal Garib | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Jessica Dawson | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Sheri Godfrey | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Jessica Keeling | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Romina D'Ugo | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Julia Juhas | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Cindy Willems | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Faye Rauw | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Niky Johnson | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Shannon Whelan | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Diana Coatsworth | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Keri Tkacz | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Krista Leis | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Lyne Tremblay | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Mary Pitt | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Janice Luey | as Welcome to the 60's Dancer |
| Katharine Leonard | as Soundtrack |
| Mink Stole | as Smoking Woman on the Street |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 5 September 2006 - 8 December 2006 |
| Budget: | USD 75,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 92,139,670 USD (12 August 2007) UK - 9,544,673 GBP (12 August 2007) Worldwide - 81,757,038 USD (except USA) Brazil - 944,847 BRL (7 October 2007) Philippines - 2,465,541 PHP (26 August 2007) Russia - 8,165,784 RUR (7 October 2007) |
| Plot: | Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad and her best friend Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos. |
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"Good Morning Baltimore" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Nikki Blonsky (c) 2000 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "The Nicest Kids in Town" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by James Marsden (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "It Takes Two" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Zac Efron (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Michelle Pfeiffer (c) 2002 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "I Can Hear the Bells" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman Performed by Nikki Blonsky (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Ladies' Choice" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Zac Efron (c) 2007 New Line Tunes (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "The New Girl in Town" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Brittany Snow with Sarah Jayne Jensen, Hayley Podschun, Kamilah Marshall, Terita Redd and Shayna Steele (c) 2007 New Line Tunes (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Welcome to the 60s" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta with Kamilah Marshall, Terita Redd and Shayna Steele (c) 2000 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Run and Tell That" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Elijah Kelley with Taylor Parks (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Big, Blonde and Beautiful" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Queen Latifah (c) 2000 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Big, Blonde and Beautiful (Reprise)" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer (c) 2007 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "(You're) Timeless to Me" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by John Travolta and Christopher Walken (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "I Know Where I've Been" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Queen Latifah (c) 2000 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Without Love" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Zac Efron, Nikki Blonsky, Elijah Kelley and Amanda Bynes (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "(It's) Hairspray" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by James Marsden (c) 2002 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "You Can't Stop the Beat" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelley , John Travolta and Queen Latifah (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron and Elijah Kelley (c) 2007 New Line Tunes (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Cooties" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Aimee Allen Co-produced by Lucian Piane (c) 2002 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Nikki Blonsky, Ricki Lake, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Harvey Fierstein (uncredited) (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now (Instrumental)" Music by Marc Shaiman (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Breakout" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Chester Gregory (c) 2007 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "The Nicest Kids in Town (Reprise)" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by James Marsden (c) 2001 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Boink Boink" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Arthur Adams (c) 2007 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Trouble on the Line" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Corey Reynolds (c) 2007 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved "Tied Up in the Knots of Sin" Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman Performed by Reverends Adam Shankman and Marc Shaiman (c) 2007 Winding Brook Way Music (ASCAP)/Walli Woo Entertainment (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved |
Goofs
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Continuity: During "Run and Tell That", Link's arms are crossed, at his sides the next shot, crossed the next and return to being at his sides. DATE: On two occasions, a red 1963 Chevrolet is seen. They were not in production until the fall of 1962, but the movie is set in the spring. DATE: When Tracy hitches a ride to school atop a garbage truck, the vehicle is an International Harvester model not manufactured until the late 1970's. Revealing mistakes: When Edna discovers Tracy at Motormouth Maybelle's record store party, the prosthetic makeup around John Travolta's mouth can be seen cracking and separating when his lips purse. Continuity: During the "You Can't Stop the Beat" number, keep an eye on the large board with the bar charts illustrating how many viewers voted for each Miss Hairspray. The bar charts are not consistent between close up and long shots. Close up shots show Amber almost winning, Tracy close on her heels. Long shots during dance numbers show Tracy trailing by quite a bit. Continuity: During 'You Can't Stop the Beat', Amber, standing behind Corny Collins, repeatedly moves from his left to his right between shots. DATE: In "Good Morning Baltimore", a 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air passes by. Fact errors: During the opening "Good Morning Baltimore" song segment, a school bus labeled "Patterson School District" passes behind Tracy on the streets of Baltimore. Although she attends Patterson Park High School, it's still the Baltimore School District. GEOG: In the opening number "Good Morning Baltimore", when Tracy is singing down the street, TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcars are clearly visible at least twice. DATE: Tracy's headboard bookshelf clearly shows three Disney's 'Annette' books. One of the books, "The Mystery at Smugglers Cove", was not published until 1963. The books are visible during the "Good Morning Baltimore" and "Without Love" numbers. DATE: At several points in the film self-inflating whoopee cushions are depicted, but cushions of the self-inflating variety were not available until the 1990s. Continuity: At the start of "Good Morning Baltimore," Tracy's alarm clock changes position three times. DATE: During the initial song "Good morning, Baltimore", Tracy is walking on the street. She stops while singing and on the bottom right is the back of a Cadillac. The 1963-style tail fin and 2 square lights below it are visible. Continuity: At the beginning of "Run and Tell That", Penny's pigtails have little to no curl. On the bus, they become more curled, and during "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful", they are perfectly curled. Continuity: During "Run and Tell That", Seaweed introduces Little Inez, with his arm around her neck which causes her collar to crinkle, but then the camera switches to Tracy and then back to Seaweed and Inez, but the collar is no longer crinkled. Continuity: After "I Know Where I've Been", when the crowd is chanting "2, 4, 6, 8, T.V.'s got to integrate," Edna is clutching her white purse under her right forearm, but then the camera pans out and the purse move back to her side. DATE: In a classroom scene, the elevation of Mount Everest is listed on the green board as 29,035 feet. Although this information is correct, the correct elevation of Everest could not be determined before GPS (Global Positioning System) technology. At the time the events in the movie were to have occurred (1962), the accepted elevation of Mount Everest was 29,028 feet. Continuity: All during the movie, the blond portions of Tracy's hair change. The blond streaks below her headband don't appear until her first appearance on the Corny Collins show. Especially during "Welcome to the Sixties", the blond streaks above Tracy's headband constantly change, even during the same scene as the camera shots are from different directions or they change locations, such as from room to room in the home and from inside to outside. DATE: There are a number of musical anachronisms: songs, LPs that were not yet available in 1962. The Top 10 chart on the CC Show has "Leader of the Pack" and other songs yet to be released. Motormouth's record store racks show, among others, Junior Walker & the All-Stars' "Road-Runner" LP, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' "A Pocketfull of Miracles" LP, and a Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell LP, all not released for another few years. Continuity: During the "Welcome to the 60's" number when everyone is dancing in the street, Tracy and Edna are dancing and swinging their bags. In a closeup of Edna and Tracy, a pink flower falls out of Tracy's hair and lands on the street next to her. In the following wide shot of everyone dancing, the flower isn't visible, nor is it visible in the next closeup of Tracy and Edna. Continuity: During "Run and Tell That", when the students get onto the bus, its number is 17. When the students are inside the bus, its number is 26. Revealing mistakes: Though specifically set in May and June of 1962, many of the trees seen in exterior shots have browning leaves, as the film was shot in the fall. Continuity: When Link is telling Amber off for teasing Tracy, the chair in front of Link is touching his desk, but in the next shot it isn't. It then continually changes between shots. Continuity: In the scene with Mr. Pinky, after he gives Tracy donuts, Edna moves her purse from her right arm to her left arm twice. Continuity: When Penny hides behind the sofa when her mom enters the room she bounces a pillow off, in the next shot the pillow is back on the sofa. Continuity: When Tracy and Edna are entering Pinky's Hefty Hideaway, a pink Cadillac disappears and reappears twice between shots. Continuity: During the end of 'Run and Tell That', the order in which Tracy, Penny and Link get off the bus changes. Internal shots show Tracy coming off first, then Penny and then Link. When seen from the outside, however, Penny is the first of the three off, followed by Tracy and then Link. Continuity: During Tracy's first show on "The Corny Collins Show", Amber is wearing a white layered dress. But a shot during the same scene, where everyone is facing the back of the set, shows Amber wearing the pink and white striped dress that she wears in the beginning of the movie. After that shot, she is back in the white layered dress. DATE: During the first musical number 'Good Morning Baltimore', Tracy runs across the street from an Esso to look at her reflection in a store window. In this window passed Tracy's reflection a modern plastic water cooler can be seen in the store. The water cooler has a red and blue button with a blue light in the indent for the water spout. Continuity: When Tracy gets off the garbage truck there's a car behind it. But as she crosses the street and the shot changes, the car disappears. Continuity: In "Miss Baltimore Crabs" There is a man with a clipboard standing in the background and he disappears from shot to shot. In the same number Penny moves closer and farther away from the group of girls auditioning. Continuity: At the end of "It's Hairspray", Amber changes her positions 3 times. First, she's on Corny's left. The next shot, she's on his right. The following shot she's back to his left. Revealing mistakes: During "You're Timeless To Me," It shows the house lights on. In the very end of the song, when Wilbur blows out the candle, it is pitch black, but the house lights should still be on. Continuity: In the scene when Motormouth Maybelle is singing, "I Know Where I've Been", they do 3 quick scenes when Maybelle is singing the lyrics, "There's a dream..." and the crowd behind here sings background. The guy in the stripped shirt is up stage of Tracy, in the next camera pan, he is stage right by 2 people from Tracy. Then, in a quick closeup of Tracy, he is back upstage (behind) Tracy. Then, they pan back to a wide shot of the crowd and he is back stage right of Tracy. Continuity: During "I Know Where I've Been", when Motormouth Maybelle sings "To just sit still would be a sin", she sheds a tear. The camera pans out to a crowd scene and comes back and the tear is gone. Continuity: SPOILER: During the awarding of Miss Teenage Hairspray, Tracy sends Inez to go claim her award in both the close up shot and the wide shot. DATE: In the movie opening scenes, the newspaper shown is dated May 3, 1962. However, the headlines refer to events that occurred in September of '62 (Liston-Patterson fight and also Barnett defying Supreme Court's ruling to allow Negroes to attend Mississippi University). CHAR: During the history class scene right before "Run and Tell That" the teacher writes on the board about the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He writes September 1st, but the correct date is September 5th, 1775, when it first convened. CHAR: During "You Can't Stop the Beat", while Edna is dancing and singing, they pan over to Link, who is also singing. The words he sings do not match the words that Edna sings. Revealing mistakes: In the first "Nicest Kids In Town" number Amber Von Tussle is wearing a stripped pink dress and has her hair done like a bee hive. In the second "Nicest Kids In Town" number you can see a small clip from behind of her wearing the same thing. The first clip was used a second time. PLOT: In "Timeless To Me," who lit the candle? Edna and Tracy were at Mr. Pinky's shop. When they came back and Tracy went to bed, Edna changed then sang "Big Blond and Beautiful." Edna was then crying on the bed. Revealing mistakes: In Geography class after the "Good Morning Baltimore" when the teacher is writing the height of Mt. Everest on the board you can plainly see that it has been written then erased, probably because a retake of the scene. Continuity: During "Ladies Choice", Seaweed is shown dancing with a white girl despite his explicitly stating earlier in the scene that the dance is segregated. FAIR: When Penny is taking Tracy's parents to the TV to see Tracy on the Corny Collins Show, Edna says "You think I wanna think [John Glenn]'s really up there?" While some might believe she is referring to the moon landing, which occurred in July 1969 (7 years after the movie takes place), Edna is in fact referring to John Glenn orbiting the Earth, which occurred in February 1962, following the approximate time line for the movie. |
Quotes
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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. Penny Pingleton: [looks into the camera] I am now a checkerboard chick! [grabs Seaweed and kisses him passionately] Edna Turnblad: Would you keep that racket down? I'm trying to iron, here! Tracy Turnblad: Negro Day's the best! I wish every day were Negro Day! Seaweed: At our house... it is. Seaweed: My mom's havin' a platter party tonight. Y'all wanna come check it out? Tracy Turnblad: Now? Penny Pingleton: Would you mind if I, too, checked it out? I've never been to North Avenue before. Link Larkin: Uh... well, would it be safe, you know... for us? Seaweed: Calm down, cracker boy, it's cool. Penny Pingleton: Wow! Being invited places by colored people! Tracy Turnblad: It feels so hip! Seaweed: I'm glad y'all feel that way, 'cause, uh, not many people do. Tracy Turnblad: I think I've kind of been in a bubble... thinking that fairness was gonna just happen. It's not. People like me are gonna have to get up off their fathers' laps and go out and fight for it. Wilbur Turnblad: [to Tracy] This is America, babe, you gotta think big to be big. Edna Turnblad: Big ain't the problem in this family, Wilbur. Edna Turnblad: Penny, get home before your mother shoots you. Link Larkin: [presents Amber with a ring] It's time. Amber von Tussel: Oh! [Amber and Link kiss] Velma Von Tussle: Amber! Save your personal life for the camera, sweetie! Oop, shiny! [sends Amber off to makeup for more powder] Motormouth Maybelle: [to Seaweed and Penny] Oh, so this is love? [pauses, then smiles] Well, love is a gift, a lot of people don't remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid. Penny Pingleton: [deadpans] So, you've met my mom? [from trailer] Link Larkin: [to Tracy] I think knowing you is the start of a pretty big adventure. [from trailer] Velma Von Tussle: [to Edna, about Tracy] Tracy certainly has redefined our standards [chuckles] Amber von Tussel: That's for sure. Prudy Pingleton: [about Tracy, who was just on the news] You see? You see! If I let you leave the house right now, you'd be in prison, fighting whores for cigarettes. That Tracy Turnblad always was a bad influence! Well, you are never, ever gonna see that beehived harlot again. Penny Pingleton: [sees Tracy in the window, gets up to leave] Okay, mother. Excuse me. Prudy Pingleton: Penny! [offers her a rosary] Prudy Pingleton: Pray for her. She's gonna need it. Velma Von Tussle: They're just kids, that's why we have to steer them in the white direction. Corny Collins: [pause] RIGHT direction? Velma Von Tussle: Isn't that what I said? Velma Von Tussle: 'Detroit sound?' What's that? The cries of people being mugged? Penny Pingleton: Without that show I have nothing! Prudy Pingleton: Having nothing builds character! Amber von Tussel: [to Shelley] Do that again, and there'll be stumps where your feet are, you got that? You little who... Link Larkin: [interrupting] Hey, Amber Amber von Tussel: [to Link] - Oley moley! Edna Turnblad: [catching Tracy at Motormouth Maybelle's Record Shop] No call? You just disappear? [looks Link up and down] Edna Turnblad: And all mashed up against a crooner! Tracy Turnblad: Penny, the cops are looking for me everywhere... you could go to jail for helping me! Penny Pingleton: Tracy, I'm already in jail. Come on! Penny Pingleton: Oh, no! Tracy Turnblad: What? Penny Pingleton: Your hair deflated! Tracy Turnblad: Let it. It was just a symbol of my conformity to the man. Penny Pingleton: You are so tough. Penny Pingleton: Mom, please don't send my best friend to the big house! Prudy Pingleton: [grabs Penny] Penny, hush! Tracy Turnblad: You haven't heard the last of me, Mrs. Pingleton! Things need to change, and I won't stop trying to change them. I don't care how long it takes. Prudy Pingleton: Good! You'll be waiting twenty to life. Prudy Pingleton: Get the jump rope, Penny. Penny Pingleton: [runs out of the room] Mom, not the jump rope! Prudy Pingleton: [to Tracy] Don't you touch my canned tuna! Prudy Pingleton: [to Penny] Wait till your father gets out of prison, you'll see more than a jump rope! Prudy Pingleton: [tying Penny to her bed with a jump rope, as Penny stoically says nothing] Prudy Pingleton: Penny Lou Pingleton, you are absolutely, positively, permanently punished. You will live on a diet of saltines and Tang, and you will never leave this room again. Prudy Pingleton: [tosses holy water on Penny] Devil child, devil child! Penny Pingleton: [glowers at her mother] Penny Pingleton: Seaweed? Shhh, don't let her hear you! Seaweed: What happened to you? Penny Pingleton: [sighs] She's punishing me for harboring a fugitive without her permission. What are you doing? Seaweed: I'm here to rescue the fair maiden, baby. [kisses Penny] Penny Pingleton: Oh, Seaweed, you do care! I was afraid the colors of our skin would keep us apart. Seaweed: No... but these knots might. [still trying to untie her] Seaweed: Was your mom in the Navy? Seaweed: Livin' in the ghetto, black is everywhere you go. Who'd have thought I'd love a girl whose skin was white as winter snow? Penny Pingleton: In my ivory tower, life was just a Hostess snack, but now I've tasted chocolate, and I'm never goin' back! Corny Collins: Role Call! Council Members: I'm Amber! Brad! Tammy! Fender! Brenda! Sketch! Shelley! IQ! Lou Ann! Joey! Mikey! Vicki! Becky! Bix! Jesse! Darla! Paulie! Noreen! Doreen! And I'm... Link! Tracy Turnblad, Penny Pingleton: [scream from home in front of their TV] Corny Collins: [singing] Who cares about sleep when you can snooze in school? You'll never get to college but you'll sure look cool! [from trailer] Motormouth Maybelle: [after demonstrating a dance] That's the way you do it! Link Larkin, Tracy Turnblad, Penny Pingleton, Seaweed: [ending the song "Without Love"] Darlin' you had best believe me, never leave me without love! Edna Turnblad: [called from off camera] Link, your pork is ready! Mr. Spritzer: [about Tracy] I want that chubby Communist girl off my show! [singing] Tammy: Are you scared we're on live? Tracy Turnblad: No, I'm sure I can cope. Amber Von Tussle: Well, this show isn't broadacst in... Tammy, Amber Von Tussle, Shelley, Noreen, Doreen, Vicki, Darla, Becky: [with the other council girls] Cinemascope! Velma Von Tussle: I never drank one chocolate malt. No desserts for Miss Baltimore Crabs. Corny Collins: Tell me, Velma, how exactly do you fire Corny Collins from the Corny Collins show? [walks away] Velma Von Tussle: [starts to speak and then pauses, frustrated] They do it all the time on "Lassie"! Edna Turnblad: First the hair, now this? Wilbur Turnblad: But, all the kids are battin' up their hair now, hon. Edna Turnblad: [to Wilbur] You're no help. Tracy Turnblad: It's ratting, daddy. [to Edna] And our first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy does it! Edna Turnblad: I don't believe that. Tracy Turnblad: What do you mean you don't believe that? How else would it look that way? Edna Turnblad: I believe that it is naturally stiff. Police Chief: [while on the lookout for Tracy] I doubt she'll risk jail to win some beauty pageant. Velma Von Tussle: [to herself] I risked communicable diseases. She'll certainly risk jail. Penny Pingleton: [about Amber] Plastic little spastic. Link Larkin: [bumping into Tracy] Sorry little darlin. Hope I didn't dent your 'do. Amber von Tussel: [to her classmates] Oh, and it's totally not true about her and the entire football team. I mean, please: anybody can get grass stains all over their back. Link Larkin: Amber, stop it. I'm sick of you doing that! Just because she's a good dancer... Amber von Tussel: [scoffs] Uh, I'm sorry... you think that she can dance? Well, maybe you'd rather have her as your partner. You could get sponsored by Goodyear! [from trailer] Mr. Pinky: [guessing Edna's sizes] 54-Double D? Edna Turnblad: Triple E [chuckles] Mr. Pinky: [shouts] I hit the Mother Lode! [from trailer] Penny Pingleton: [to Tracy, at the dance] Get out there and show them! Corny Collins: Velma, isn't this where it's all heading anyway? Now you can fight it, or you can rock out to it! Edna Turnblad: If you protest you'll be in files! You'll be on lists! J. Edgar Hoover will still be wire-tapping your cold body in the grave. Tracy Turnblad: People who are different, their time is coming! Link Larkin: That's my shot, Trace. Tracy Turnblad: But, it's whats right. Link Larkin: I'm sorry, Trace. I just think this adventure is a little too big for me. Wilbur Turnblad: This heart only beats for size 60. [from trailer] Motormouth Maybelle: [to Edna] Are you sure you wouldn't like to have a little something to eat? Edna Turnblad: [looks at pot roast] Is that braised? Edna Turnblad: No one is auditioning for anything in this household! Tracy Turnblad: But why not? Why not? Edna Turnblad: Dancing is not your future. One day, you're going to own Edna's Occidental Laundry. Tracy Turnblad: I don't want to be a laundress. I want to be famous. Edna Turnblad: If you want to be famous, learn how to take blood out of car upholstery. That's a skill you can take right to the bank. Teacher: Oh, and Mr. Larkin, perhaps you'd like to share with the rest of the class, Patrick Henry's immortal last words? Link Larkin: Kiss my ass? Corny Collins: I'd like to welcome our new council member, Miss Tracy Turnblad! Tracy, cozy up to ol' Corny and tell us a little bit about yourself Tracy Turnblad: Well, I watch the Corny Collins show everyday and I do nothing else! Corny Collins: Oh! Tracy Turnblad: I also hope to be the first female president... or a rockette! Corny Collins: As your first act as president, what would you do? Tracy Turnblad: Hmm... [ponders]... I'd make everyday Negro Day! Corny Collins: I read you like tomorrow's headlines! Velma Von Tussle: [singing to Wilbur] You're gonna need more than some seltzer to put out this fire. Velma Von Tussle: [disgusted] Oh! [forces a smile] Mrs. Turnblad! I'd know whose mother you were ANYWHERE. [notices Edna's outfit] Oh, let me guess - new dress? Edna Turnblad: [nods, shyly but proudly] Velma Von Tussle: Well... you'll stop traffic! [laughs] Edna Turnblad: [looks away, crushed] Velma Von Tussle: It was nice meeting you... Tracy. [struts away with Amber, as Edna starts crying] Tracy Turnblad: Mama, don't you DARE listen to a word she says! [Edna appears not to hear her] Come on! She's just worried that I'm going to win the Miss Teenage Hairspray contest! Edna Turnblad: [stops crying immediately and looks at Tracy, impressed]... Really? Motormouth Maybelle: [singing] Oh, oh, oh... you can't stop today as it comes speeding down the track! Child, yesterday is history, and it's never coming back! 'Cause tomorrow is a brand new day, and it don't know white from black! 'Cause the world keeps spinnin' 'round and 'round, and my heart's keepin' time to the speed of sound... I was lost 'till I heard the drums and I found my way, 'cause you can't stop the beat! Link Larkin: Uh... we're on live. Amber von Tussel: You have to vote for a person! Not one of the Himalayas. Velma Von Tussle: Incredible! I could do a fan dance with a lettuce leaf and you would remain completely obtuse! Wilbur Turnblad: Obtuse? Velma Von Tussle: Yes, obtuse! Wilbur Turnblad: I flunked geometry... Velma Von Tussle: ...yes, and biology too, no doubt! Mr. Pinky: There's my shining star! Fantastic to meet you! I'm Mr. Pinky Tracy Turnblad: It's so nice to meet you! Mr. Pinky: Tracy, is this your older sister? Edna Turnblad: Oh! [chuckles] Mr. Pinky: Perhaps you both would like some complimentary couture? [hands them a tray of doughnuts] Edna Turnblad: Couture? Mr. Pinky: [presents Edna with Tracy's spokesgirl contract] Now, if you could just sign here... Edna Turnblad: Flattery will not distract Miss Turnblad's agent from reading the fine print! Mr. Pinky: [flabbergasted] Her agent? Edna Turnblad: [hands Tracy the food tray] Tracy, eat your doughnuts. [to Mr. Pinky] Let's talk... Corny Collins: [at the conclusion of "It's Hairspray"] Hey, baby! You look like you could use a stiff one! Amber von Tussel: I lost, Mom. Let's just deal with it! Velma Von Tussle: [as she pulls the tallies out of her dress] You did not lose! You can not have lost because I switched the damn tallies! Edna Turnblad: [standing behind a live television camera] Smile, Miss Crabcakes! You're on Candid Camera! Wilbur Turnblad: That was a good shot! Don't you think? Edna Turnblad: Well, I had a dream that I would own a coin-operated laundromat but I came down from that cloud real quickly! Penny Pingleton: I don't know why we have this room, but there's food, water, a bed, gas mask, Russian language books... Tracy Turnblad: ...and it's really well insulated. Wilbur Turnblad: [to Edna, as she resists the urge to jump onto the stage and dance] Do it now! Or forever wish you had! Velma Von Tussle: [singing] Those poor runner-ups/Might still hold some grudges/They padded their 'cups'/But I screwed the judges. [first lines] Tracy Turnblad: [singing] Oh, oh, oh, woke up today, feeling the way I always do. Oh, oh, oh, hungry for something that I can't eat. Then I hear that beat. That rhythm of town starts calling me down. It's like a message from high above. Oh, oh, oh, pulling me out to the smiles and the streets that I love. Good morning, Baltimore! [last lines] Ensemble: [singing] Ever since we first saw the sun, a man and woman liked to shake it when the day is done. And so we're gonna shake and shimmy it and have some fun today. Cause you can't stop the motion of the ocean or the rain from above. They can try to stop the paradise that we're dreamin' of, but you'll never stop the rhythm of two hearts in love to stay. Cause you can't stop the beat. You can't stop the beat. You can't stop the beat. You can't stop the beat. You can't stop the beat. Motormouth Maybelle: Napaway. For stubborn hair. Every kink, will be gone in a blink. Corny Collins: And now it's time to say goodbye to our very own fun-lovin', free-wheelin' little Brenda. Corny Collins: [looks to Brenda] Come on up here, Brenda. Brenda will be taking a leave of absence from the show. How long are you gonna be gone, Brenda? Brenda: [smiles nervously] Just nine months. Velma Von Tussle: How can you taint a cancerous can of chemicals? Wilbur Turnblad: [to a sobbing Edna, who thinks he's been cheating on her] Honey, took me five years to figure out you were flirting! [softly] Wilbur Turnblad: How could I ever? Velma Von Tussle: [after "New Girl in Town"] How dare you pick the same song! Motormouth Maybelle: They wrote it. |
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