The movie opens with the New Line Cinema logo over clouds and a moving camera. The title fades in that it is a production with Ingenious Film Partners. The camera moves into a street in Baltimore in 1962, showing shops opening and people walking. It enters a house and bedroom, where a woman wakes up, gets dressed, and sprays hairspray, revealing the title "Hairspray" in the cloud. She then sings as the camera follows her through the house to the TV.