Hairspray (1988)
Comedy, Music, Romance • 1h 32m
Overview
'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.
Director: John Waters
Cast: Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie Harry, Vitamin C, Sonny Bono, Leslie Ann Powers, Ruth Brown, Jerry Stiller, Michael St. Gerard, Clayton Prince, Mink Stole, Shawn Thompson, Ric Ocasek, Pia Zadora, Jo Ann Havrilla, Alan J. Wendl, Josh Charles, Jason Downs, Holter Graham, Dan Griffith, Regina Hammond, Bridget Kimsey, Frankie Maldon, Brooke Stacy Mills, John Orofino, Kim Webb, Debra Wirth, Dawn Hill, Cyrkle Milbourne, Doug Roberts, John Waters, Toussaint McCall, Lydia Troy, Verna Day, Kevin Joseph, Cory Tabachow, Marcy Brodsky, Donald Wheeler, Paul Zimmerman, Jennifer Johns, Brook Yeaton, Jeff Gardner, Jay Hillmer, Rhea Feikin, Coley Sohn, Susan Lowe, Rosemary Knower, Colleen Simon, Kathleen Wallace, Keith Pruitt, Al Granick, Robert Di Santo, Mollie Hall, Dorie Ellwood, Maggie Linton, Brenda Alford, Carolyn Walker, Mary Jefferson, Alfie Brown, Tipper Burton, Leo Rocca, Jim Parisi, Margo Tully, Matt Myers, Beverly Brigham, Wilbur Griffin, James Adam Tucker, David Samson, Robb Case, Joey Perillo, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mojo Gentry, Dale Guy Madison, Mark Murray-Mazwi, Christine Mason, Mmekutmfon Essien, Bill Lee Brown, Fredella Calloway, Joseph Eubanks, Angel Harper, Cornell Hills, Gorham Scott, Darrell Taylor, Peter Koper, Kevin Murray, George Stover, Buddy Deane, Michael Willis, Chuck Yeaton, Rick Anderson, Harold Anthony, Milton Clark Jr., Harold A. Cornish, Bernice Moore, June Thorne, Scheryll Anderson, Cheryl Andrews, Sonja Bonair, Sylvia Byrd-Leitner, Charlie Hawke, Rudy Jones, William Rose, Miriam Kiss, Patrick Mitchell, Jim Lyons, Frederick Strother, Christopher Golley, Mary Lou Barber, Jacole Fletcher, Brad Baker, John Carhart III, Scott Coblio, Jean Crispens, Vincent De Paul, Lisa M. DeHaven, Christopher Eaves, Lewis Erskine, Stephanie Mazzeo, Jeff Vespa, Stephen Wozniak, Elizabeth Coffey
Director: Frank Capra
Director: Frank Capra
France Rimini 4K Blu-ray see caps vs Artificial Eye Blu-ray
France Rimini 4K Blu-ray see caps vs Artificial Eye Blu-ray
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti & Charles Crichton & Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti & Charles Crichton & Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer
Director: Otakar Vávra
Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray see nic review
Restored: Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored: Czech PAL DVD
Preferences will vary, the restored track sounds good, but not necessarily faithful to the original elements.
Director: Otakar Vávra
Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray see nic review
Restored: Deaf Crocodile 4K Blu-ray
Unrestored: Czech PAL DVD
Preferences will vary, the restored track sounds good, but not necessarily faithful to the original elements.
Director: Robert Rossen
Director: Robert Rossen
Director: Anthony Mann
Director: Anthony Mann
Director: Basil Dearden
Indicator 4K Blu-ray. Excellent 4K master and encode, except for opticals grain is very fine, grading is beautifully silvery and luminous, nice HDR re-grade by Fidelity in Motion
Director: Basil Dearden
Indicator 4K Blu-ray. Excellent 4K master and encode, except for opticals grain is very fine, grading is beautifully silvery and luminous, nice HDR re-grade by Fidelity in Motion
Director: Jacques Becker
Director: Jacques Becker
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: André de Toth
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: André de Toth
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
2D version: Warner Archive Blu-ray
3D version: Warner Archive 3D Blu-ray
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: Sidney Lumet
2026 Criterion 4K Blu-ray
2011 Criterion Blu-ray is the best. Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has heavily filtered audio
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John McTiernan
Director: John Ford
Director: John Ford
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
1991 Warner Bros LaserDisc (for original mono track)
1996 Warner Bros 25th Anniversary LaserDisc has isolated music and effects track (incorrectly labeled "music minus vocals") not present on any other release
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: Alfred E. Green
Director: Nicholas Ray
Director: Nicholas Ray
Director: Peter Weir
Director: Peter Weir
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: John Waters
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor encoding see caps but still a huge improvement over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray Both the 2.0 and 5.1 tracks are improvements over the 2014 Universal Blu-ray
Theatrical cut is on the 4K disc, but the restored Director's Cut is only on the Blu-Ray disc. Director's Cut utilizes the same 4K transfer as the theatrical cut for 86 minutes, but the 6 minutes of restored footage could only be salvaged from a standard definition source and are thus needed to be upscaled.
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
Director: John Waters
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