Hairspray..

Based on the 1988 John Waters cult comedy and a movie adaption of the Tony Award - winning Broadway show of the same name comes the completely fictional story of " pleasantly plump " teenager Tracy Turnblad ( Nikki Blonsky ), a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion - dancing.. Her dream is to appear on “ The Corny Collins Show,” Baltimore’s hippest dance party on TV.. Tracy seems a natural fit for the show except for one not - so - little problem - she doesn’t fit in.. Her plus - sized figure has always set her apart from the cool crowd, which she is reminded of by her loving but overly protective plus - sized mother, Edna ( John Travolta ).. That doesn’t stop Tracy because if there is one thing that this girl knows, it’s that she was born to dance.. As her father Wilbur ( Christopher Walken ) tells her, “ Go for it! You’ve got to think big to be big..”

After wowing Corny Collins ( James Marsden ) at her high school dance, Tracy wins a spot on his show and becomes an instant on - air sensation, much to the chagrin of the show’s reigning princess, Amber Von Tussle ( Brittany Snow ), and her scheming mother, Velma ( Michelle Pfeiffer ), who runs television station WYZT.. Even worse for Amber is the fact that it’s not just the audience who loves the new girl in town; Amber’s sweetheart Link Larkin ( Zac Efron ) seems to be smitten with Tracy’s charms as well.. This dance party gets personal as a bitter feud erupts between the girls as they compete for the coveted “ Miss Teenage Hairspray ” crown..

At school, however, a short stint in detention and raised - eyebrows caused by the budding relationship between her best friend Penny Pingleton ( Amanda Bynes ) and Seaweed ( Elijah Kelley ), opens Tracy’s eyes to a bigger issue than the latest dance craze or the coolest hairdo - racial inequality.. Throwing caution to the wind, she leads a march with Motormouth Maybelle ( Queen Latifah ) to fight for integration and winds up with an arrest warrant instead.. Tracy is on the lam now and goes underground - literally - to Penny’s basement..

" Hairspray " will be spraying onto a big screen near you from the 20th July 2007.. But not til the 13th September 2007 in Australia..