Parents Guide for
Hairspray (2007)

A teenage boy climbs through the bedroom window of a teenage girl, he cuts ropes that are restraining her, they kiss, and they lie back on the bed briefly and kiss again. A teenage boy and a teenage girl kiss in a few scenes, a teenage boy and a teenage girl kiss on TV, a teenage boy and a teenage girl hug, and a husband kisses his wife on the cheek. Teenage boys and girls dance with suggestive hip movements and one thrusts her hips and smacks herself on the buttock and says, "I'm a bad girl and must be punished." A young man sings to a young woman during a hairspray commercial, "Hey baby, you look like you could use a stiff one." A teenage girl licks and sucks on a lollipop in suggestive manner while a teenage boy watches her with interest. A teenage boy kisses his fingers and presses them against a teenage girls lips and she collapses. Young men and young women dance with suggestive moves in several scenes. Teenage boys and girls dance in several scenes for a dance show, with varying degrees of suggestive gestures. A woman tries to seduce a man, she pushes him into a chair and wraps her leg around his waist and his wife walks in the room. A husband and a wife sing and dance about their love for each other. A husband squeezes the clothed buttock of his wife as she wiggles her hips (it is implied that they have sex later). Three women wearing low-cut dresses that reveal cleavage and bare thigh dance and sing on a stage. We see a woman wearing a bra and a girdle in a store's changing room. A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage. A teenage girl dresses for school (we see her bare calves as she slips on slippers) and we see her button her blouse and zip up her skirt. A woman pulls out a wad of paper that is stuffed in a young woman's bra. A young man pulls out a sock from the crotch of his pants before a woman is able to do so for him. A woman stuffs ballots into the strap of her dress and bra. A man is referred to as a "flasher" and we see him open his coat as he walks along a street (nothing is visible to us). A teenage boy and a teenage girl sing about their love for one another. A woman sings about having had sex with judges to win a competition and in a later scene refers to risking communicable diseases. A teenage girl says that she will be gone for 9 months, implying that she is pregnant. A song refers to all things being equal when it comes to love. A woman tells a teenage girl that her dance moves are much too dirty and in a later scene refers to dance moves being savage. A teenage girl passes rumors about another girl being promiscuous with the football team.

A woman ties her daughter to her bed, puts a record of the Lord's Prayer on and tells the girl that she will be staying there forever. A woman yells at her daughter and grabs her by the arm. A girl punches another girl on the arm. A teenage girl taps a police officer on the shoulder with a protest placard and it is reported as a case of severe assault. A teenage girl falls from a raised stage prop and onto a stage (she limps a bit but seems OK). People are cruel and insulting about a teenage girl's weight, a woman's weight, the size of a teenage girl's nose, etc. in many scenes. A laundress remarks to a woman that her "personal stains" are difficult to remove. A man plays with a toy donkey and lifts its tail to reveal a cigarette. Several whoopee cushions make a noise when a man tries to move in his bed -- which is made out of many whoopee cushions -- and the man then flatulates.

1 anatomical term, 4 mild obscenities, 12 derogatory terms for African-Americans, 5 derogatory terms for weight challenged people, 1 derogatory term for Caucasians, name-calling (bum, wacky, ugly, stupid, crazy, Communist, hefty, harlot, flasher), 6 religious exclamations.

Two pregnant women smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol in a bar scene, people are shown drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes in a bar scene, and a man is show drinking in a bar and he is referred to as a "bum." Several teachers smoke cigarettes in a teachers' lounge at a school, several teenage girls smoke in a girls bathroom at a school, and a man smokes a cigarette.

Dreams, racism, following your dreams, love, infidelity, cruelty, integration, weight issues, pride, being different, freedom, doing the right thing, cheating, fairness, civil rights protests, spinning the news.