Warhol-ite and porn idol Joe Dallesandro gets to play a preacher, and Waters veteran Mink Stole also appears. Then you have some legendary actors all contributing to the mix of odd characters. Ricki Lake Hairspray returns to Baltimore for another role with Waters.
Everyone seems to be in on the joke of the film, and they play their campy roles with sincerity as well as a tongue planted in a cheek. Cry-Baby was financed by Imagine Films after an all-out bidding war for Waters erupted after the success of Hairspray. Suddenly the guerrilla film maker from Baltimore was seen as a bankable talent, and Hollywood wanted to inaugurate him into the mainstream.
For the first time John Waters had a big budget, union people working on technical aspects of the film, the best in the business on hand for music recording, and a real choreographer. Unfortunately, he also had to answer to a studio that demanded a PG rating, and organized re-shoots of key sequences when the film tested poorly in a suburban shopping mall screening. The film was cut down severely, and mismarketed as a real teen movie instead of the spoof it was.
Yet Cry-Baby still has some uniquely Waters moments and a wonderful sense of abandon and glee. Even though Johnny Depp and Amy Locane did not do any of their own singing that would be James Intveld and Rachel Sweet , they do a great job performing the numbers and dancing as if they had. This is the movie that took Depp from the bowels of teenage pin-up boyhood to movie stardom. Like most of his performances you can see who he was thinking of when he acted the role.
In s Baltimore, a bad boy with a heart of gold wins the love of a good girl, whose boyfriend sets out for revenge. Cry-Baby : That's right, Allison. My father was the "Alphabet Bomber. Only one I ever had. Allison : God. I heard about the Alphabet Bomber. Bombs exploding in the Cry-Baby : That's right. All in alphabetical order. Car wash I used to lay in my crib and hear him scream in his sleep Allison : But your mom Cry-Baby : My mother tried to stop him.
She couldn't even spell, for Christ's sake, but they fried her too. Sign In. Comedy Musical. Director John Waters. John Waters. Top credits Director John Waters. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Polly Bergen Mrs. Vernon-Williams as Mrs. Darren E. Burrows Milton Hackett as Milton Hackett. Stephen Mailer Baldwin as Baldwin. Alan J. Wendl Toe-Joe as Toe-Joe. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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. Too young to be square Too tough to be shocked Too late to be saved.
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