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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
12,137 Views


# And so, my dear,

so short and stout #

# You'll never be in #

# So we're kicking you out #

# With your form and your face #

# Aw, well, it isn't your fault #

# You're just down with a case #

# Of Miss Baltimore Crabs #

Uh, you may go.

Um... Thank you?

I think they secretly liked you.

Cutting my class, Tracy Turnblad?

I trust it was something really important.

It should've been.

# Gimme a break, yeah.

Right now! #

# Got a brand-new sound,

so scream and shout #

Hey! Hey!

# With a funky rhythm #

# It's a brand-new look that you can... #

Whoo!

# There's a party groovin'

let's get down #

What you lookin' at?

Nothing. Not you.

Can I help you?

That move's swish.

Ya got that right.

The man can dine me

on a diet of detention...

so long as he don't starve

me of my tunes, baby.

- Does that dance have a name?

- Oh, this?

Call it the "Peyton Place After Midnight. "

I use it to attract, uh, the opposite sex.

Wow.

That is so groovy.

You're really good.

Why, thank you.

So would it be kinda like this?

You can't do that dance.

Hello, now.

Not bad for a white chick.

- Hey, I know where I've seen you before.

- Where?

On Corny's show on Negro Day.

Negro Day's the best.

I wish every day were Negro Day.

At our house, it is.

Hey. Show me another one?

You wanna see another one.

Well-well, here's a little

something signified to say...

Hello, my name is Seaweed...

Oh, oh, oh!

J...

Stubbs.

What's yours, baby?

I'm Tra-cy Turn-blad!

You're gonna get it, white girl!

Well, Tracy, you got it goin' on, girl.

You one of us.

You're joinin' this program already

in progress!

Well, let's go.

# Whoo! #

# Yeah! #

# Got a brand-new sound,

so scream and shout #

# Hey, a funky beat,

now let's be hurrying #

Whoa!

# We can't wait now #

# Have some fun #

# This party now has just begun #

No, I get who Caesar is.

But what's the "Ideas of March"?

I mean, how can

a month have an idea?

Hold on.

Come on.

# Come on and watch me strut my stuff #

# Watch me #

# Come on and watch me #

How you likin' detention now?

I'm a bad, bad girl who

needs to be punished.

# Ohh #

Hey.

You know, Corny's hosting

the hop tomorrow.

If he saw you dancin' like that...

he'd put you on the show.

Mmm...

- See ya.

- Mm.

Ah, whoa. Sorry, little darlin'.

Hope I didn't dent your 'do.

See y'all later.

Hey, Trace. I was looking for you.

What?

# I can hear the bells #

What? What are you talking about?

# Well, don't-cha hear 'em chime? #

Chime's not exactly how I'd put it.

# Can't you feel my heartbeat

keeping perfect time? #

# And all because he #

# Touched me #

# He looked at me and stared #

# Yes, he bumped me #

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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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