Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical

Actors: John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden, Allison Janney, Jesse Weafer, Taylor Parks, J.P. Ferreri, Shane Simpson, Jerry Stiller

Directors: Adam Shankman

Plot: Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nicole Blonsky) and her best friend Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes) audition to be on The Corny Collins Show and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snow) and her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos. With Queen Latifah as hip DJ Motormouth Maybelle, John Travolta as Edna Turnblad, Christopher Walken as Wilbur Turnblad, James Marsden as show host Corny Collins, and Zac Efron as Amber/Tracy’s boyfriend, the popular and cute Link Larkin.

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Big girl Tracy Turnblad (newcomer Nikki Blonski) is in constant motion: she’s a Jell-O mold with a wave machine trapped inside. It’s 1962 and her dream is to mingle with the beautiful people by becoming a regular cast member on The Corny Collins Show, a daily televised dance party that features dangerous race music for clean cut white teenagers. Her corpulent mother Edna (Travolta) wants to shelter her baby from the evils of the world. At least Edna practices what she preaches. Mom hasn’t set foot out of the house since the 50s. Given a chance to audition for Corny (James Marsden), Tracy lands a spot on the show and over night becomes it biggest star…in more ways than one.

While in detention, Tracy mingles with minorities and it isn’t long before she’s championing racial equality and trying to integrate the bandstand.