synopsis:
Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart,
has only one passion--dancing. Her dream is to appear on "The Corny
Collins Show," Baltimore's hippest dance party on TV. Tracy seems a
natural fit for the show except for one not-so-little problem--she
doesn't fit in. Her plus-sized figure has always set her apart from
the cool crowd, which she is reminded of by her loving but overly
protective plus-sized mother, Edna. That doesn't stop Tracy because
if there is one thing that this girl knows, it's that she was born
to dance. After wowing Corny Collins at her high school dance,
Tracy wins a spot on his show and becomes an instant on-air
sensation, much to the chagrin of the show's reigning princess,
Amber Von Tussle, and her scheming mother, Velma, who runs
television station WYZT. Even worse for Amber is the fact that it's
not just the audience who loves the new girl in town; Amber's
sweetheart, Link Larkin, seems to be smitten with Tracy's charms as
well. This dance party gets personal as a bitter feud erupts
between the girls as they compete for the coveted "Miss Teenage
Hairspray" crown. At school, however, a short stint in detention
and raised-eyebrows caused by the budding relationship between her
best friend Penny Pingleton and Seaweed opens Tracy's eyes to a
bigger issue than the latest dance craze or the coolest
hairdo--racial inequality. Throwing caution to the wind, she leads
a march with Motormouth Maybelle to fight for integration and winds
up with an arrest warrant instead. Tracy is on the lam now and goes
underground--literally--to her best friend Pennys basement. Has
Tracy's luck finally run out? Will she miss the final dance-off
against Amber and forfeit the title of "Miss Hairspray," or will
she sing and dance her way out of trouble again?
