IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Hairspray (2007)
Hairspray runs on joyful exuberance, warm hug, and crowd-pleaser. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Viva High School Musical: Mexico
2008
Hairspray
1988
The Prom
2020
Mean Girls
2024
The Music Man
2003
ABCD 2
2015
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964
The Gang's All Here
1943
A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits
2016
Annie
2014
Descendants 2
2017
Grease
1978
Cats Don't Dance
1997
Rags
2012
Victor/Victoria
1995
Strictly Ballroom
1992
Monster High: The Movie
2022
All Stars
2013
Bye Bye Birdie
1963
The Pajama Game
1957
Godspell
1973
High School Musical
2006
The Cheetah Girls
2003
Annie Get Your Gun
1950