Cry-Baby Movie
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Storyline
TAGLINES
Too young to be square... Too tough to be shocked... Too late to be saved
Good girls want him bad. Bad girls want him worse.
He's a doll. He's a dreamboat. He's a delinquent.
Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.
| Johnny Depp | Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker |
| Amy Locane | Allison Vernon-Williams |
| Susan Tyrrell | Ramona Rickettes |
| Polly Bergen | Mrs. Vernon-Williams |
| Iggy Pop | Uncle Belvedere Rickettes |
| Ricki Lake | Pepper Walker |
| Traci Lords | Wanda Woodward |
| Kim McGuire | Hatchet-Face |
| Darren E. Burrows | Milton Hackett |
| Stephen Mailer | Baldwin |
| Kim Webb | Lenora |
| Alan J. Wendl | Toe-Joe Jackson |
| Troy Donahue | Hatchet's Father |
| Mink Stole | Hatchet's Mother |
| Joe Dallesandro | Milton's Father |
| John Waters |
6.10 out of 10 (7903 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Loved the film
posted on 04 Jul 2009I loved the comedy... funniest film I have seen in such a long time. Greatest send-up of so many things... comedy, love stories, middle America, Elvis, rock and roll, barbershop, musicals.. It was so tongue in cheek. Really good acting from the whole cast.. I am a Johnny Depp fan and this film shows off his sense of fun.. Choice of music scores ... superb. I felt at first it was going to be a poor second to John Travolta's Grease. It couldn't be further from the truth. John Walters has captured the period superbly and sent it up deliciously. The Cry Baby girls' line "our besoms are our weapons" was so funny.. And the french kiss scene with the storm brewing - hilarious.
Corny Waters-like comedy musical...
posted on 13 Jun 20091st watched 4/30/2009 - 4 out of 10 (Dir-John Waters): Corny Waters-like comedy musical with some funny scenes and good parts but it didn't make a whole worthwhile experience. John Waters directed this music-filled spoof of the fifties scene with Johnny Depp playing the title role. This movie is very similar with what he did with the 60's spoof entitled "Hairspray" but this one is not as effective. Some of the tunes are catchy, some of the characters are interesting in their quirky Waters-like way, and the portrayals are fine although sometimes overdone. The storyline is similar to the movie "Grease", where there is a good group and a bad group. The guy from the bad group, Cry Baby, wow's a girl from the good group. The good girl then joins the bad group but once Cry Baby hurts her -- she falls back to the good group. This just sets up the ending where Cry Baby tries to win her back. Now, one difference that is expected in Water's movies is that the bad group doesn't appear all that bad all the time and the good group acts like they have a pole up their you-know-what. I definitely saw this in Hairspray, as well. The wacky and goofiness isn't really all that much fun in this movie, though and it just leaves us with a feeling like the movie could have been much better. The prime appeal of the Johnny Depp character is that he's able to make one tear roll down his cheek(thus his namesake) at various times and makes the women fall all over the place for him. This is overused and the basic bottom line is that the movie is OK, but not that great.
Camp
posted on 01 Jun 2009If you don't like camp then stay away! John Waters is known for camp and although I personally am not a fan of his other movies he won me over with Cry Baby. I was eight years old the first time I saw Cry Baby. I made my mom rent it every weekend after that until she finally just bought it for me. Here I am fifteen years later and it is still my favorite movie. The actors and characters are great. There is a fine line between camp and bad acting and these actors pulled it off. The music is alive with 1950's rock and roll that will make you want to get up and dance, or at least tap your foot. Ultimately the movie is about being your self regardless of how you are viewed by society. We should all take pride in our inner beauty and stop hating people just because they are different from ourselves.
Intentional cheese as a means of hiding one's utter lack of talent.
posted on 20 May 2009Waters's contribution to the world of cinema has to be searched with a telescope, and then when/if something is found (by sheer chance and lots of luck) it has to be analyzed with a microscope.And after it has been analyzed it would get discarded into the lab's "rubbish bin for totally useless things". One single atom of that microscope is worth all of his movies combined.CB is etremely campy, and intentionally so. The usual JW stuff: comic-strip dialogue, simplistic plot, moronically cheerful characters, chewing-gum pop, overacting etc. Waters knows that he is incabaple of making a movie of quality, so he hides behind the mask of the "intentionally cheesy film-maker" - which supposedly makes him a special kind of "anti-artist". But in the world of cinema, being an anti-talent often gets mistaken for talent, which is exactly what Waters had hoped for - and eventually got. It's a con act. Charlatans infest the world of cinema and modern pop art; it's a plague.Perhaps we have John Waters to blame for inspiring Baz Luhrman to make all those horrible, dumb turkeys. It's like a virus: one Waters creates five new bad directors, and then these five each create more, and so on. Where will it end? With "Dancer In The Dark"? Can that bomb actually be topped?
Great Movie
posted on 21 Mar 2009I have watched this movie, hundreds of times, and it never gets boring. The toe tapping music and plot is extremely comical, which makes it easy for the viewer to enjoy it. With many diverse characters and locations, it always keeps the audience on their toes. Johnny Depp, is a very lovable character, yet still is able to retain his "bad boy" image. The costumes and visuals make the viewer pay attention to the actors and places when necessary, and yet hides them when it is not of great importance. The notion that Crybaby can cry one tear and have girls falling all over him, is a new and inventive way to show emotions, yet make the character still seem real.
JD is hot of course!
posted on 12 Mar 2009I love this movie filled with hot people, hot comedy and hot music.It's a feel positive movie involving struggle for love good dancing and directing.One of my fav. older films.It made me laugh cry smile and feel good. All around a nice Grease like film. I do like it better tho,more my style.I like when the baby pops out of Ricky Lake all clean in the back of the car during the street race of chicken,then the squares crash into a barn of chickens.That's really laughable! I also enjoyed the singin jailbirds scene.Most of I enjoy all of Depps films, he has great choice is style as well.Tracy Lords also I enjoyed she reminds me of all the wannabes nowadays trying so hard to look like her and be retro and the Betty Page wannabes.
The Illustrated Man
posted on 22 Feb 2009John Waters is a hit and miss thing for me. What he does is what so many do: engineer the creation of a near-reality and overlay it on reality. He's best when he works directly with the notion of movies (Cecil B Demented) and songs as here.This works. Its a "Grease," better than "Grease," because its folding with reality is better engineered. Conflating the jailbreak with the viewing of a horror movie, the appearance of hatchetface (an ugly girl) and the escape across town of children from the orphanage — all to 50's music — is a stroke of cinematic genius.Next, Ricki Lake gives birth in the back of a car speeding in a game of piggyback chicken... The greasers here are called "drapes;" now who would ever think of that?Compare this to his similar attempt using sex. What a disaster. Here, he gets to leverage 65 years of experimenting with how music IN a story overlaps with music over the story.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
Gotta love any film that pairs Iggy Pop with Susan Tyrell
posted on 13 Feb 2009This is probably John Waters' most underrated movie. It's the 1950's and good girl Alison Vernon-Williams (Amy Locane)is "tired of being good". She wants to hang with the Drapes (Baltimore slang for greasers) and be a bad girl. Only problem is, she's living in the world of the Squares. She has a Square boyfriend (Baldwin, played by Stephen Mailer), an upper middle-class square life, and her grandmother (Polly Bergen) is the head of the moral upper class (their motto is the 4 "B"s, "Beauty, Brains, Breeding, Bounty"; an actual real life phrase from Waters' grandmother). What's a young Debutante to do but fall for the town's most notorious juvenile deliquent, "Cry Baby" Walker (Johnny Depp).While not nearly as disgusting or offensive as his other films (Hell, it even makes Hairspray seem subversive), this film struck a chord with me more than any other of his films. It's an authentic throwback to the Jukebox Musicals of the 1950's and early 1960's. Everyone in the cast is in on the joke and the performances are jubilant. There are tons of authentic 1950's songs to be found, both originals and lip-synched by the principals (Vocals done by Rachel Sweet, James Intveld and Timothy B. Schmitt).Johnny Depp finds his footing quickly in the role of a teen-age idol deliquent that all of the girls want and all of the guys hate. He's actually spoofing his then "21 Jump Street" Tiger Beat pin up image. I must say that up until this movie, I didn't like Johnny Depp. His sense of humor and self effacing performance changed me forever and I've been a fan ever since.The rest of the cast includes Ricky Lake (Before she lost the weight and any shred of credibility due to her sleazy talk show), Traci Lords, Susan Tyrell, Iggy Pop, Patty Hearst, David Nelson, Troy Donahue, Joe Dellasandro, Joey Heatherton... in fact Waters comes real close to realising his dream of having an entire cast of stars, both as leads and secondary actors.The theatrical version runs 86 minutes and is tampered with by the studio with cuts and re-shoots. Sometimes, though, USA network runs the uncut version with cut scenes, alternate scenes , and and extra song, "Chicken", originally done by Burt Convy(!). This is a much funnier and coherent version and should be looked for by fans of this film.Scenes to watch out for include the Turkey Point make-out sequence, the aborted Jailbreak by Hatchet Face (wonderfully played in true Dreamland style by Kim McGuire) and Milton (Darren E. Burrows), and ALL of the musical performances (it's impossible to choose just one).If you dig Jukebox Rock-n-Roll movies (and if you don't.. you're a SQUARE!!!!), you need to see this one.
Join the mayhem
posted on 26 Jan 2009As usually in these teenage comedies, the conventionally nicer girls are not the ones favored by the script. Here, Depp is surrounded by a couple of women (you want to know who they are—well, I thought abound the spicy blonde in the gang and about Depp's stalker) nicer than the one picked by him—yet it is of rule of the melodramas that the conventionally less appealing girl is the one chosen by the bum.Hughes made this vastly silly and enjoyable, wholly pointless parody, mayhem, romp; indeed it is more of a parody than a pastiche. It's funny, silly, harmless, and reminds one of Depp's very low and humble beginnings in the cinema—unfortunately, he had to begin by this silly way, with Freddy Krueger and the drapes and GILBERT GRAPE and the like—man, the mere things he was reduced to—and suddenly there he was, rescued by Burton and let us mention Kusturica as well, and Brando and hanging out with Rourke …. Yea, Depp put aside all dignity and got these less than honorable first jobs. Depp went a long way from Crybaby to Ed Wood and then to Abberline. Hughes' comic means are of course cheap and crass, and this seems the entire point of the pointlessness—to delight in the silly rubbish.Apart from any conceivable reasons, Hughes made this comedy in order to kick some ass. It's a mindless graffiti of gross humor and silly ironies, a mayhem of vulgarity and offensiveness; the bland parents of the cute blonde, before the judge, are very cute—when the mother asks about the meaning of a four—lettered word, etc.. In a way, this is like the toilet of the cinema—you go only if you feel like—and none should be offended by the inscriptions on the walls ….
I love this cult classic!
posted on 17 Jan 2009I have so many great memories involving this movie. I saw it on Showtime when I was like, 6, and my mom was like, "now you're gonna want me to tape that for you, huh?" and I was like, "hellz yea!" when I saw him in that white/black jacket singing at the Jukebox Jamboree and any scene he's in in "Please Mr. Jailer". Mmm mmm...17 years later I still get chills watching that scene because of how freakin' fine he is. I finally got the soundtrack yesterday off of Amazon.com and it is truly a great soundtrack. The songs are a little different from the movie versions, (for example, I don't like the album version of the "Doin' Time for Being Young" song as much as the movie version), but that's okay. This is truly my favorite Johnny Depp movie. :-D
I say wow but it doesn't cover it!
posted on 21 Dec 2008What may at first appear to be another cheesy, tacky, hopeless, teen, rip-off movie with awful songs, unrealistic voices and pathetic attempts at acting- it is a surprisingly addictive, emotional, wonderful movie! When I first saw it- I was worried- it seemed a little to tacky for me but then I really got into this movie and started yellig at screen when something happened I didn't like and I cheered at the good bits and now I even sing to the songs and cry at the emotional bits. With its regular humour and catchy tunes this movie is incredibly gripping- you will find yourself wanting to watch it over and over again IF you are open minded enough to enjoy it and not pick up on its rare bad parts. Johnny Depp is immense in this and is totally as sweet as sugar. You will his single lonely tear drop almost as much as his Elvis style dancing! Watch this film- it's great really!
Fun to watch!
posted on 12 Dec 2008Slightly funny and musically entertaining movie that has Johnny Depp (not that well known then) as a delinquent who falls in love with a girl who wants to be bad. This is above average and falls along the lines of Hairspray and Grease. It's unlikely you'll see Deep in such a role again. Great cameo appearances by a host of stars makes this movie a joy to watch!
Avoid unless you are looking for a good looking Johnny Depp
posted on 31 Oct 2008After viewing this movie I wondered why Johnny Depp, such a good actor, would actually choose to appear in such a useless piece of dreck. There was nothing even remotely interesting in this movie. If it hadn't of been for Johnny Depp I would have completely hated this movie all together.I should have known better. This was from the man who made hairspray. I hated hairspray with a firery vengeance. But then again I though, Johnny Depp. The singing scenes were completely ridiculous because the voices didn't go with the people that were lip-synching them at all. I could swear that they changed the singing voices from song to song as well.This movie was supposed to be mocking 50's teen movies like grease and whatnot I guess. But this movie deserved to be made fun of way more than they did. They were actually entertaining. There were only two parts of the movie that I enjoyed watching, and they both involved Depp. One was where Cry Baby and the girl (her name was not worth remembering) were sitting on the blanket outside and Cry Baby said that you just (stick your tongue out and wiggle it around). I thought his head movement when he said it was just hilarious. The 2nd was when Cry Baby got up and opened his shirt revealing that electricity killed his parents.Without Johnny Depp this movie would have been more of a disaster than it already was. Ricky Lake must be the worst actress that I have ever seen.
And her having children and screaming in the car during labor at the end was just ridiculous. Hatchet Face or whatever her name was had no point in the movie at all. Were we supposed to laugh at her? And Amy Locaine wasn't anything special either. Although I didn't hate her as much as just about all of the other characters.So if you have the ability to hear, see, or breathe, I wouldn't recommend this movie to you. In fact, I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.
Unless you are looking to see Johnny Depp looking extrodinarily good.
What an awesome thing!!
posted on 28 Oct 2008OMG!!! I thought Cry-Baby was such a dumb movie, the plot anyway, but the singing and Johnny Depp and the comedy was great!! It was like a cheaper form of Greece and with hotter people!! Wow! This movie is for comedy lovers and people who can use an hour and a half to have a little fun. But I would recommend that you see it with a group of friends or family...it's that kind of movie!Cry-Baby has a lot of familiar people like Ricki Lake (has her own show) Johnny Depp (obvious) Iggy Pop (band member) and Traci Lords (porn star). All these people together produced a very happy and interesting, although could be categorized as over-dramatic film. Wait to go!!
A John Waters Movie For People Who Usually Hate John Waters Movies!
posted on 19 Oct 2008Okay, I didn't really see the whole thing again... I only caught the last 2/3... but I haven't seen the movie since it first came out in 1990 and I forgot how absolutely incredible it is! Easily the best film that John Waters has ever made... even people who *hate* John Waters movies should like this one! Johnny Depp, in his first starring role in a motion picture, plays "Cry Baby", a young teen delinquent who's a cross between Elvis and James Dean and every other tough guy that came out of the 50s. He falls in love with a goody- two-shoes blonde with a hidden wild side (of course). Fantastic 50s soundtrack... some classic tunes and some created especially for this movie. A stellar cast of familiar, offbeat faces (watch for a small role played by Willem Dafoe!) spout some great one-liners! Johnny doesn't actually sing his own songs... but he lip-syncs pretty good... and he has the Elvis dance moves down pat. My favorite scene: the town squares doing the Bunny Hop down the street!
JOHNNY DEPP IS GREAT
posted on 07 Oct 2008This movie was pure genius. John Waters is brilliant. It is hilarious and I am not sick of it even after seeing it about 20 times since I bought it a few months ago. The acting is great, although Ricki Lake could have been better. And Johnny Depp is magnificent. He is such a beautiful man and a very talented actor. And seeing most of Johnny's movies, this is probably my favorite. I give it 9.5/10. Rent it today!
Cry Baby My Surreal 50s fantasy
posted on 10 Sep 2008I first saw cry baby when I was about 14.Up until this point I was fairly satisfied to watch john Hughes teen movies. Watching cry baby is watch so much better very kitsch cool clothes bizarre but strangely familiar people.All my friends wanted to be Alison and be with Johnny depp.he has never looked so pleasing! Guy from the wrong side of the tracks girl from the right side of the tracks fall in love cliché with so much more every color seems enhanced. The humor is silly and off the wall. The soundtrack has rally great 1950s songs .The Johnny Depp faux singing does get a bit grating at some points. the scene that springs to minds is when he is in a prison he breaks in the a song while in bed its very shrill. Probably the one audio bit of the film I could do without. but visually Johnny Depp is at his best.The costume are wondfully 50s.Great smaller parts for Traci lords and Iggy Pop. I cant really find a bad thing to say about it one of the best. http://www.cafepress.com/urbanpopart/1246577
"Cry-baby" is a lighthearted, 'bubble-gum' romantic comedy that is an enjoyable look at 50's teen life.
posted on 07 Sep 2008Not to be taken too seriously, "Cry-baby" ultimately succeeds in just being what I label a 'bubble-gum' movie; it is a lighthearted, enjoyably spoofy and somewhat stereotypical look at teen life in the 50's. With a little touch of "Grease" and Johnny Depp in top form <like all of his films;, and with a dose of tunes to annoy your head for the minutes they are performed;in typical 'musical' fashion;, "Cry-baby" is like a theme-park ride where you just kick back and enjoy the time, but don't have to be fearful of any oncoming loops or twists. It's simple, and entertaining in its own right. One fault is that several of the actors portray underwritten characters that could have possibly been a little more "appreciated" as far as the script goes, but then again the movie never pretends to be a masterpiece anyways so just enjoy it for what it is.
a bad movie
posted on 29 Aug 2008John Waters' comedy/musical about cry baby, a drape or greaser (Depp), and his problems with the other side of town kids, the rich kids back in the 50s and 60s is somewhat entertaining, but neither a fresh idea or anything special. This movie couldn't be taken seriously, despite depp's cool performance, there was just too much bizarre things going on in this movie for me to consider liking it. Traci Lords' character made me want to puke. While Ricki Lake was pretty bad as well. I thought this film borrowed a lot of themes from Outsiders, but it kind of just made it a joke. Some of the music sequences were fun and there was some decent comedy here and there, however all together it was pretty disappointing and even a bit of a waste of time.---IMDb rating: 6.1, my rating: 7/10
Director's Cut
posted on 25 Jul 2009Cry Baby (1990) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Director's Cut Wonderful spoof of the 1950's and Elvis movies from director John Waters. Johnny Depp plays the lead character, a hood who falls for a square girl (Amy Locane). Nostalgia certainly has something to do with the appeal of this film since it was the second film I ever saw at a theater by myself. Even without the nostalgia this is a very funny, often hilarious movie that has plenty of laughs and some great music. Depp certainly steals the show in his Elvis wannabe performance that is certainly better than The King ever delivered. The supporting cast including Locane, Iggy Pop, Polly Bergen, Ricki Lake and Traci Lords also deliver well in their roles. As with Sling Blade, the added scenes to this director's cut really don't add anything to the film and should have been left in the deleted scenes section.