New Line Cinema | Release Date: February 26, 1988 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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There are some nice things to be said about Hairspray, the John Waters movie which opened over the weekend, but not enough to explain all you've been hearing about it. It's a fairly run-of-the-mill teenage dance movie, set in Baltimore in the early '60s, with a certain oddball humor that only occasionally lifts it out of its class. [29 Feb 1988, p.F3]