Hairspray 4K 1988 Ultra HD 2160p

It's Baltimore, 1962, and rebellious teenager Tracy Turnblad (Lake) attempts to win the coveted 'Miss Auto Show' crown as she fights against racial discrimination. Written and directed by John Waters (Polyester, Serial Mom) and featuring rock legends Sonny Bono and Deborah Harry as the pushy parents of Tracy's rival.

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Baltimore, early 1960s. Tracy Turnblat—an overweight high school senior—dreams of becoming a contestant on a local TV dance show. Together with her best friend, she enters the competition and succeeds on her first try. This provokes an extremely negative reaction from the former favorite, who begins to scheme against Tracy.

However, the good-natured plus-size girl rapidly gains increasing respect from the other contestants and the residents of Baltimore. She doesn’t dwell on her success but actively participates in protests against racial segregation—advocating for the Black community to have the same rights as white people. At the show’s climax, something akin to a spontaneous race riot in support of Black people even breaks out…

From this plot summary, one might get the impression that "Hairspray" is a social retro-drama about progressive youth views of the early ’60s, which is not true. Following "Pink Flamingos" (in which John Waters had his favorite actor—the transvestite Divine—eat dog shit) and "Multiple Homicides", "Hairspray" became the first film by the King of Trash to receive a wide theatrical release.

The director once again casts Divine in one of the leading roles, where he plays the main character’s mother (though not her only one). Waters himself also lands a cameo—the role of a psychiatrist. He casts the remaining roles with young, unknown actors, using them to recreate a world of carefree, almost idiotic happiness. And so it seems that the main characters are concerned here only with dancing day and night without end.

The multitude of musical numbers, literally following one after another, fully justifies classifying the film as a musical. Years later, the comic, grotesque, and burlesque chaos created by Waters looks like nothing less than a “wild ode” to beautiful youth. Here one can find all the key elements of the style of the “brazen, unceremonious mocker and violator of moral foundations,” the main ones of which will continue to be biting irony and parodic fervor.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (91.5 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Info Audio

#English: FLAC 2.0
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#German: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Italian: Dolby Digital 2.0
#Spanish (Latino): Dolby Digital 1.0
#Spanish: Dolby Digital 1.0

Info Subtitles

English SDH (PGS), Chinese (Cantonese Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French (Metropolitan) (PGS), German SDH (PGS), Indonesian, Italian SDH (PGS), Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Spanish (Castilian) (PGS), Spanish (Latin American) (PGS), Swedish, Thai, Turkish.