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Hairspray (2007) This movie has two or more women who talk to each other about something other than a man! This movie has two or more women who talk to each other about something other than a man!

Hairspray has a Bechdel rating of 3/3. That means this movie has two women in it who talk to one another -- about something other than a man!

Imdb Rating

6.7 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes User Meter

84 / 100

Runtime

117 minutes

Parental Rating

PG

Box Office Receipts

$118,800,000

Genre

Comedy Drama

Family Music

Musical Romance

Plot

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

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