Hairspray

In 1962 Baltimore, Tracy Turnblad dreams of becoming a dancer on The Corny Collins Show and, despite facing obstacles such as rejection and racial segregation, she becomes a popular performer, helps integrate the show, and finds love along the way. Hairspray is a 2007 English-language Comedy Drama motion picture featuring John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah and Vincenzo Calvano. The movie is based on Hairspray by John Waters Hairspray by Mark O Donnell Thomas Meehan. Ingenious Media in association with Zadan/Meron Productions, Storyline Entertainment and Offspring Entertainment. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Hairspray is written by Leslie Dixon, John Waters, Mark O donnell and Thomas Meehan and it is directed by Adam Shankman. New Line Cinema acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Hairspray was released on 23rd August 2007 and takes a screen time of 116 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Hairspray was made on a budget of $75 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $203 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Leslie Dixon. Cinematography was done by Bojan Bazelli and editing by Michael Tronick. The music was composed by Marc Shaiman.