Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.

Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

When a Harvard-educated CIA agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother.

A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.