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Synopsis: Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma. Tracy then decides that it's not fair that the black kids can only dance on the Corny Collins Show once a month, and with the help of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father and Edna, she's going to integrate the show.....without denting her 'do!
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Adam Shankman
Production: New Line Cinema
  Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 21 wins & 40 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
PG
Year:
2007
117 min
$118,823,091
Website
11,910 Views


# You'll never get to college

but you'll sure look cool #

# Don't need a cap or a gown #

# When you're the nicest kids in town #

They must think my ears

are garbage cans.

Would you turn that racket down?

I'm tryin' to iron here.

# Nicest kids in #

# Kids in town, whoo! #

Ma, it's not racket.

It's The Corny Collins Show.

Well, it's turning your brains into mud.

Mrs. Turnblad, it's a new dance!

The Stricken Chicken.

Well, I can't hear myself think.

How am I supposed to negotiate pleats?

Edna?

I'm in here, Prudy.

What's that racket?

Ohh, Tracy.

Edna, is my laundry ready?

Yep.

That'll be $3.00, hon.

That's pretty pricey

for a pair of petty pants.

Well, I'm sorry, Prudy...

but some-a your personal stains...

required poundin' with a rock.

I'm sure I don't know what you mean.

You're letting her listen

to that race music again?

My daughter spends every afternoon

at the Stamp and Coin Club.

Oh, really? Well, your daughter hap-

Ohh, ohh.

Oh, what is that? The Wavin' Raven?

It's a little twitchy.

Oh, you wanna play Charades now.

All right.

OK, go ahead.

You.

Penny.

No. Ahh!

Tracy Turnblad, are you tryin' to tell me...

that-that Penny didn't get permission...

from her mother to be here?

What?

Penny.

You are banned from this house.

You will never watch that show again!

- Without that show I have nothing!

- Having nothing builds character!

Toodle-oo, Edna!

Give 'em a hand, folks.

All right, all right.

And, once again,

that's the Stricken Chicken.

We will be right back

for some more of that hot Detroit sound.

And we're off!

Corny.

"Detroit sound"?

What's that, the cries

of people being mugged?

Aw, velma, the kids dig

the rhythm and blues.

Yeah, they're kids, Corny.

That's why we have to steer

them in the white direction.

Right direction?

Didn't I say that?

I'll do it.

You try that again and there'll be stumps

where your feet should be.

You got that? You little whor-

Amber.

...holy moly. Baby.

Good job dancing today.

- It's time.

- Ah!

Link.

Amber.

Ah!

- Amber.

- Amber, Amber, Amber.

Save your personal life

for the cameras, sweetie.

Oh! Shiny.

Tammy, Lou Ann,

you're gonna die.

Speaking of cameras,

did you have a nice nap?

If you'd do your job, my daughter wouldn't

have to fight to be visible.

I gotta show some of the

other kids once in a while.

You know, this is a small city.

There aren't that many stations.

This time next year

you could be wearing...

an ill-fitting tux,

snapping bar mitzvah photos.

I don't know.

# It takes two, baby... #

Show Link.

This is nuts. She can't even dance.

Plastic little spastic.

Oh, Link. I can dance

so much better than her.

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Leslie Dixon

Leslie Dixon is an American screenwriter and film producer. She began her career as an original screenwriter, writing films such as 1987's Outrageous Fortune and Overboard. She then moved into adaptations and re-writes, developing the screenplays for: Mrs. Doubtfire, The Thomas Crown Affair, Pay It Forward, and Hairspray. She has also produced a variety of films, and the television series Limitless. more…

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