Michelle Pfeiffer returns to movie screens for the first time in five years, in "Hairspray.” Pfeiffer is the villain of the piece, Velma Von Tussle , who manages a Baltimore TV station in the 1950s and doesn't want her teen dance show integrated.

"Hairspray” is based on the 1988 John Waters film and the 2004 Broadway musical. One of Pfeiffer's co-stars in "Hairspray” is John Travolta — playing across ...