Cry-Baby

Name: Cry-Baby
Released: 1990-4-6
Cast: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake

Cry-Baby

PG-13
1h 24m
1990

72%

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Eisenhower is President. Rock 'n' Roll is king. And Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the baddest hood in his high school. Johnny Depp heads up a supercool cast as the irresistible bad boy whose amazing ability to shed one single tear drives all the girls wild - especially Allison Vernon Williams (Amy Locane), a rich, beautiful "square" who finds herself uncontrollably drawn to the dreamy juvenile delinquent and his forbidden world of rockabilly music, fast cars and faster women. It's the hysterical high-throttle world of 1954 in director John Waters' outrageous musical comedy.

Director:

John Waters

Producer:

Rachel Talalay, Brian Grazer, Jim Abrahams

Writer:

John Waters

Cast:

Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake, Iggy Pop, Polly Bergen, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Mailer, Darren E. Burrows, Kim McGuire, Patricia Hearst, David Nelson, Troy Donahue, Mink Stole, Joey Heatherton

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

72%

Critics Consensus: John Waters' musical ode to the teen rebel genre is infectious and gleefully camp, providing star Johnny Depp with the perfect vehicle in which to lampoon his pin-up image.

Reviews

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Rene Jordan

Cry Baby gives a new meaning to the word, overwhelming. [Full review in Spanish]

In fact, the movie is so good- humored that it stands in marked contrast to almost every other mainstream American film out now...

It's not Waters' most revolutionary or provocative work, but Cry-Baby effectively pokes fun at the sanitized Greases and Romeo and Juliets of the world for the queerdos and freaks alike

It's not at all difficult to declare Cry-Baby the best American movie musical in recent memory.

For a while the actors seem intimidated by the '50s references, but the film eventually develops a musical energy that carries the day.

June 25, 2017

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