Hairspray Live!

Dec 7, 2016

2h 0m

★ 7.4

You can't stop the beat!

Overview

A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

NBC Productions

Universal Television

New Line Television

Storyline Entertainment

Sony Pictures Television

Warner Bros. Television

Hairspray Live! Trailers

Cast

Tracy Turnblad

Maddie Baillio

Amber Von Tussle

Dove Cameron

Velma Von Tussle

Kristin Chenoweth

Penny Pingleton

Ariana Grande

Link Larkin

Garrett Clayton

Edna Turnblad

Harvey Fierstein

Corny Collins

Derek Hough

Motormouth Maybelle

Jennifer Hudson

Wilbur Turnblad

Martin Short

Seaweed J. Stubbs

Ephraim Sykes

Mr. Harriman F. Spritzer

Paul Vogt

Little Inez

Shahadi Wright Joseph

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5.5

Nine

Dec 3, 2009

Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.

7.2

The Princess and the Frog

Dec 8, 2009

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

6.4

Porky's

Nov 13, 1981

In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When the club's owner and his sheriff brother swindle them out of their money and embarrass them, the boys plan revenge.

6.7

Yentl

Nov 18, 1983

In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

6.2

National Theatre Live: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

May 18, 2017

In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professor and his wife to their home for some after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.

10.0

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

Jun 30, 2011

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

0.0

National Theatre Live: Collaborators

Dec 1, 2011

John Hodge's Collaborators centers on an imaginary encounter between Joseph Stalin and the playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.

0.0

National Theatre Live: The Kitchen

Oct 6, 2011

The Kitchen, Arnold Wesker’s "extraordinary black comedy," is directed by Bijan Sheibani and features an ensemble cast of 29 actors. The production is set in a restaurant in 1950s London.

0.0

National Theatre Live: A Disappearing Number

Oct 14, 2010

The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, it has toured the world and was recently performed in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

7.0

National Theatre Live: London Assurance

Jun 24, 2010

Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charles also falls in love with Grace. When his father appears on the scene, he has to convince him that there is a case of mistaken identity and he is somebody else. Then Lady Gay Spanker, a married woman also visiting at the house, is persuaded by Charles to seduce his father and thus divert his attention from Grace. Much confusion and scheming ensues.

7.1

National Theatre Live: King Lear

May 1, 2014

An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says nothing. Simon Russell Beale, whose recent appearances at the National include Timon of Athens and Collaborators, takes the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.

6.2

Walking on Sunshine

Jun 19, 2014

Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor's ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life...

0.0

Morto Rossa

Oct 17, 2022

A dance school organizes a mysterious casting to select a dancer for a future show. Suzie, after passing the audition, will be chosen as the lucky one.

6.8

How to Marry a Millionaire

Oct 29, 1953

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

0.0

Consumed

Sep 27, 2018

After her mother comes back from an extended hospital stay, a young girl begins to envision an ominous monster lurking in her home.

8.1

Children of Paradise

Mar 15, 1945

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.

7.7

The Princess Bride

Sep 25, 1987

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.

7.0

Born on the Fourth of July

Dec 20, 1989

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

6.2

The Mothman Prophecies

Jan 25, 2002

Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.