Cry-Baby (1990)
Genre: Comedy / Music
Duration: 85 minuten
Alternative title: Cry Baby
Country:
United States
Directed by: John Waters
Stars: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane and Susan Tyrrell
IMDb score:
6,5 (66.059)
Releasedate: 5 April 1990
Cry-Baby plot
"Good girls want him bad. Bad girls want him worse."
Wade "Cry Baby" Walker (Johnny Depp) is a member of the infamous Drapes group, who are considered criminals by the good group the Squares. One day, Wade falls in love with Allison Vernon Williams (Amy Locane) and she too falls for his charms. However, the relationship causes problems: Allison's ex, a Square, can't bear the fact that she is dealing with a Drape. After a big riot at a party, Wade ends up in prison until he is 21. When Allison hears several false rumors about him, she decides she wants nothing more to do with him. Wade really doesn't stop there.
Actors and actresses
Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker
Allison Vernon-Williams
Ramona Rickettes
Belvedere Rickettes
Pepper Walker
Baldwin
Milton Hackett
Mona 'Hatchet-Face' Malnorowski
Mrs. Vernon-Williams
Wanda's Mother
Reviews & comments
rep_robert
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- 27413 messages
- 3932 votes
Still a strange parody. At the beginning of the film you have to deal with the many crazy characters and the wonderful 50s vibe, but the film is not so absurd that you realize that this is a parody of films like Grease. This makes the story a bit simplistic and the characters are much too easily influenced, but once after the fight, the brakes are released.
One absurd scene after another passes by, culminating in the children's home, where the kids have to sell themselves to adoptive parents in cubes. Very nice done.
It's a shame that the absurd didn't come out so well right from the start, which caused minor irritations.
Later in the film, I was able to let it go more easily and enjoy the many silly things being conjured up on the screen.
3.0*
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Lovelyboy
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- 3399 messages
- 2502 votes
A few sparingly fun moments, otherwise a nice 'great-quiff' atmosphere with the cars and the music, and that Amy Locane is quite acceptable, but otherwise too much musical with enthusiastic dancing people on the street and so on...and let I now really hate musicals and hysterical stuff about it.
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Shadowed
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- 9905 messages
- 5930 votes
Okay.
In any case, this is the first John Waters film that I can cross out. Despite this director's famed status, I've never had one of his films on my screen. Mainly because these didn't really show up on television, but also because his earlier films don't really appeal to me.
The only thing I can clearly recognize in terms of Waters' style element are the clearly eccentric characters. Everything is old-fashioned exaggerated, only Waters smears it a little more. It makes for a completely different movie that I expected. Where I had expected a serious and sentimental film, it turned out to be a much more explosive and light-hearted film.
Depp does a decent job, though these aren't really the roles I'll remember him for. With Locane, that thought is no different. In principle, the gestures they make are mainly exaggerated, but that does not necessarily make an acting performance better. With the right pleasure it even makes this a lot easier, because it is of course more fun to dare to present yourself.
Furthermore, it is somewhat reserved in terms of direction, despite attempts to make it into a spectacular whole. The camera work is too ordinary for that and the layout a bit too simple, but fortunately the film is fascinating and also does not last long. Waters knows very well what he is doing, but the charm wears off after a while. It can still score a sufficient score, especially for the nice eccentric spectacle.
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