Parents Guide for
Hairspray (2007) More at IMDbPro »

Some songs are suggestive and have sexual references. Some dance moves are a bit suggestive too.

A woman tries to seduce a man.

A man grabs his wife's rear.

A teenage girl smacks her rear and says that she needs to be punished.

A few kissing scenes.

There's a flasher who flashes a few women, however he has clothes under his coat.

After getting together with an African American boy, a Caucasian teenage girl calls herself a "checkerboard chick" and kisses him passionately. She also makes a suggestive comment, "Now I've tasted chocolate, and I'm never going back!"

A married couple sing a romantic song together, and the woman says "Oh, Wilbur..." just as the camera cuts away from them, suggesting that they may be about to do something.

A teenage girl catches the eye of a boy she likes and licks her lollipop seductively while they stare at each other.

A teenage girl on the Corny Collins Show announces that she is going to be gone for nine months, and the host jokingly refers to her as "freewheeling" before winking suggestively to the camera.

References are made to French kissing.

Mild violence. For example, police officers push and shove African-American people for marching for integration.

A women ties her daughter to her bed and tells her that she is staying there forever.

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. A girl almost calls another girl a whore. A boy tells a teacher to "Kiss his ass"

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, while several teenage girls smoke in a girls' bathroom.

A man offers a cigarette, and someone else offers one to a woman.

There aren't really any particularly frightening or intense scenes. There are, however, certain racial barriers and lines drawn between people that some children may think is wrong.

Michelle Pfeiffer's character tends to be excessively mean, diabolical, and racist toward others. Her daughter, played by Brittany Snow, is the same way.