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%

age 13+

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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:

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

Chicago Tribune

Gene Siskel

For a while the actors seem intimidated by the '50s references, but the film eventually develops a...

Cry-Baby is often sweet-spirited even when its crummy, but there's also something fetid in its foo...

August 15, 2017

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Carrie Rickey

If Cry-Baby has a message, it's that Cry-Baby and Allison deserve each other because they're young...

The wizard of odd still runs amok.

It all adds up to zany, wide-eyed, quintessential Waters havoc -- the "kinder, gentler" 1990s bran...

June 25, 2017

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Common Sense Media

age 13+

Common Sense Says

Campy '50s parody has mild sex references, violence.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Cry-Baby is a 1990 John Waters film that is both a campy celebration and a hilarious parody of the 1950s. In the midst of the overwrought battles between the "Squares" and the "Drapes" (the nickname for the "juvenile delinquents" running amok around Baltimore), there is some over-the-top fighting with fists and baseball bats, and the Drape women make constant reference to their breasts, either through gestures or through calling them "bazooms." Characters are shown smoking cigarettes. While in a car, a teenage girl drinks from a flask and offers some "hooch" to the driver, who turns it down because he's driving. There is one use of "f--k" and some other mild profanity. Although the film's parodying of 1950s "juvenile delinquent" movies, societal conformity, and sexual repression will be lost on younger viewers, for older kids and parents Cry-Baby is an enjoyable and hilarious introduction to John Waters' movies.