St. Louis - Hairspray - Movie Showtimes

Genre: Musical, Comedy

Release Date: 7/20/2007

Running Time: 117 mins

Director: Adam Shankman

Cast: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Allison Janney, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron and Elijah Kelley

Producer: Neil Meron and Craig Zadan

Writer: John Waters, John Waters, Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan

Distributor: New Line Cinema

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Hairspray

Director-choreographer Adam Shankman's screen adaptation of the smash Broadway musical based on John Waters' 1987 �crossover� movie is a faithful record of the stage version, but that�s all it is -- a recording. The story remains the same: In the early 1960s, a plus-sized Baltimore teen named Tracy Turnblad (here played by perky newcomer Nikki Blonsky) becomes an unlikely instigator of integration on an American Bandstand-like TV show. The songs -- clever, up-tempo numbers styled by composer-lyricist Marc Shaiman and co-lyricist Scott Wittman after the Top 40 hits of the era -- are among the best of recent Broadway vintage. But Shankman hasn't reshaped the material in cinematic terms, and the result is a largely lifeless endeavor, lacking both the rambunctious energy of a live performance and the expressionistic pull of the great movie musicals. The stunt casting of John Travolta as Tracy�s plus-plus-sized mom, Edna, seemed a sound idea, but the dandyish star is oddly restrained in a part that calls for the grandiose. The only real flashes of inspiration here exist on the periphery, especially in James Marsden's performance as the movie's Dick Clark surrogate: Sporting enough Brylcreem to deflect most forms of nuclear radiation and flashing a Pepsodent smile that could guide ships to shore in a raging monsoon, it's Marsden who seems the epitome of the virginal 1950s innocence to which Hairspray is, ultimately, a cockeyed adieu. - Scott Foundas

Theaters showing Hairspray
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Keller Plaza Cine 8

4572 Lemay Ferry Rd

South St. Louis County, MO 63129

314-845-2900

(12:45 PM), (3:40 PM), 6:30 PM

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