CRY-BABY

'''Cry-Baby''' is a 1990 musical directed by John Waters. It stars Johnny Depp as 1950s teen rebel ''Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker'', and also features an expansive cast that includes Iggy Pop, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake, David Nelson, and Patty Hearst. This film did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release but has subsequently become a cult movie.
The film is a parody of teen musicals such as ''Grease'', of Elvis Presley movies, and of 1950s 'juvenile delinquent' movies. (Johnny Depp has said more than once that he took the role to poke fun at the teen-idol hysteria surrounding him during his days on the TV show ''21 Jump Street.'') It centers on a group of delinquents named the Drapes and their interaction with the rest of the town and its other subculture, the Squares, in 1950s Baltimore. "Cry-Baby" Walker, a Drape, and Allison, a Square, create upheaval and turmoil in their town by breaking the subculture taboos and falling in love.
Part of the film takes place at the now-closed Enchanted Forest amusement park in Ellicott City, Maryland.
The film is rated PG-13 in the U.S. It was Waters' second mainstream Hollywood picture, after his earlier R- and X-rated independent films. The first was ''Hairspray''.
''Cry-Baby'' will be the second of Waters' films to be translated to the stage as a musical comedy (following Hairspray). It will be performed at La Jolla Playhouse as part of their 2007 Season, as well as being shadow-casted at the Nuart Theatre by Sins O' the Flesh.

Contents

Plot

Cast

Cameos

Songs

Songs sung by characters

Songs sung by other artists

DVD release

Box Office

External links

Plot

In John Waters' second mainstream motion picture at a PG-13 rating, Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker (Johnny Depp) is a greaser (or "drape" in John Waters' vocabulary) who falls in love with "square" Allison Vernon-Williams (Amy Locane). Her grandmother (Polly Bergen) and boyfriend Baldwin (Stephen Mailer) are disgusted with her love for Cry-Baby. Meanwhile, Cry-Baby's sister Pepper (Ricki Lake) is pregnant while taking care of two other children. The film co-stars Susan Tyrell as Ramona, Cry-Baby and Pepper's grandmother, Iggy Pop as their Uncle Belvedere, Kim McGuire as drape Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski, Traci Lords as sexually-active drape Wanda Woodward, Darren E. Burrows as Hatchet's boyfriend Milton Hackett, and Kim Webb as Lenora Frigid, a tramp-ish drape obsessed with Cry-Baby.

Cast

★ Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker

★ Amy Locane as Allison Vernon-Williams

★ Polly Bergen as Mrs. Vernon-Williams

★ Susan Tyrrell as Ramona Rickettes

★ Iggy Pop as Belvedere Rickettes

★ Ricki Lake as Pepper Walker

★ Traci Lords as Wanda Woodward

★ Kim McGuire as Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski

★ Darren E. Burrows as Milton Hackett

★ Kim Webb as Lenora Frigid

★ Stephen Mailer as Baldwin

★ Jonathan Benya as Snare-Drum

★ Jessica Raskin as Susie Q.

Cameos

★ Troy Donahue as Mr. Malnorowski

★ Mink Stole as Mrs. Malnorowski

★ Joe Dallesandro as Mr. Hackett

★ Joey Heatherton as Mrs. Hackett

★ David Nelson as Mr. Woodward

★ Patricia Hearst as Mrs. Woodward

★ Willem Dafoe as Hateful Guard

Songs

Songs sung by characters

#Sh-Boom - Baldwin and the Whiffles
#A Teenage Prayer - Allison
#King Cry-Baby - Cry-Baby, Allison, Hatchet-Face, Milton, and Wanda
#Teardrops Are Falling - Cry-Baby and Prisoners
#The Naughty Lady from Shady Lane - Baldwin and the Whiffles (not on soundtrack, only in Director's Cut DVD)
#Doin' Time for Bein' Young - Cry-Baby and Prisoners
#Mr. Sandman - Baldwin and the Whiffles
#Please, Mr. Jailer - Allison, Cry-Baby, and Company
#High School Hellcats - Cry-Baby, Allison, and Company

Songs sung by other artists

#Cry-Baby - The Honey Sisters
#Nosey Joe - Bull Moose Jackson
#Bad Boy - The Jive Bombers
#The Flirt - Shirley and Lee
#I'm So Young - The Students
#(My Heart Goes) Piddily Patter, Patter - Nappy Brown
#I'm a Bad Girl - Little Esther
#Jungle Drums - Earl Bostic
#Cherry - The Jive Bombers
#Rubber Biscuit - The Chips

DVD release

★ The original cut which is only available on video is rated PG-13 whilst the Director's Cut DVD is unrated and adds an extra 6 minutes to the original cut (85 minutes).
===Additions to Director's Cut===
#The two F-words used by Wanda's parents are unbleeped.
#There is extra dialogue between Wanda, her parents, and the foreign exchange student Inga (includes Wanda's "boys with roamin' hands and rushin' fingers!")
#Toe-Joe Jackson gets more dialouge at Turkey Point.
#Hatchet-Face's parents are selling cigarettes to students outside the high school (also present in TV version)
#An air raid drill at the RSVP charm school.
#Baldwin and the Whiffles get an extra song called "The Naughty Lady from Shady Lane" which they sing in their march to Allison's house.
#Extra footage of Cry-Baby riding his motorcycle to the charm school and a cop pursuing him.
#Allison gets a third verse for her song "A Teenage Prayer".
#Extra footage of Hatchet-Face chasing Susie Q. and Snare-Drum through the Rickettes' yard.

Box Office

''Cry-Baby'' opened on April 6, 1990 in 1,229 North American cinemas - an unprecedented number for a John Waters film. In its opening weekend, it grossed a soft $3,004,905 ($2,445 per screen) and grossed only $8,266,343 by the end of its theatrical run[1], thus not recouping the estimated $12 million budget.[2] However, thanks to the presence of Johnny Depp, ''Cry-Baby'' has since proven lucrative on television, video, and DVD.

External links

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★ La Jolla Playhouse 2007 Season

★ Sins O' the Flesh Website