Hairspray (1988)

The song-and-dance comedy starring Sonny Buno is set in Baltimore in the early 1960s. It was the last moment when Americans remained naive and rampant, and the whole society was about to face the upheaval of the times. the film reflects his political observation through a popular TV song and dance program among young people. and deep sympathy for the civil rights of people on the fringes of society. The plot revolves around two families in black and white. Sonny's daughter was spoiled by her snobbish mother and trained her to be a dance queen, but she lost to a black girl when she openly recruited new dancers on a TV show, while the local TV station adopted a policy of black-and-white apartheid at that time. After teenagers broke racial taboos to pursue love and freedom of work, the traditional rules finally became history.