Hairspray

"Wow! Being invited places by coloured people!"

The film is set in Baltimore in 1962, when black people and white people were still be segregated but to make the black people with in the community feel welcome they celebrated 'Negro Day' once a month. Also in a time when generic miscegenation was hardly ever heard of. This film presents the audience with the ideology that if you were over-weight/an ethnic minority/or stands out in an way that is not known is unacceptable. However this is soon overcome by the likes Of Tracy Turnblad and the help of her friends Penny Pingleton, Seaweed and surprisingly her parents Edna and Wilbur Turnblad who encourage that anything/everything is in her reach as long as she fights for it. Initially her fight is to get on the 'The Corny Collins Show' then she goes on to get integration within the show as the show currently only allows black dancers on the show on 'Negro Day'. The audience follows Tracy through the trials and tribulations she has to go through just to be accepted with in socitey for being a teenage girl who is over-weight and seems to like the idea of integrating with people of other ethnicities.

There is also the issue of Penny and Seaweed falling in love and how their families will react to it. Seaweed's mother seems to accept it but warns the pair of them that their will be serious repercussions to face because others won't be so accepting, whereas it appears Penny's mother has a break as she seems the two of them kissing on 'The Corny Collins Show'.

"Oh, Seaweed, you do care! I was afraid the colours of our skin would keep us apart."