Cry-Baby
- Johnny Depp: Wade Walker ( Cry-Baby )
- Amy Locane: Allison Vernon -Williams
- Susan Tyrrell: Ramona Rickettes
- Polly Bergen: Mrs. Vernon - Williams, grandmother of Allison
- Iggy Pop: Uncle Belvedere Rickettes
- Ricki Lake: Pepper Walker
- Traci Lords: Wanda Woodward
- Kim McGuire: Mona ' Facebook killer ' Malnorowski
- Joe Dallesandro: Milton's father
- Willem Dafoe: prison guard
Cry-Baby (German crybaby ) is a musical film from 1990, and a parody of musicals like Grease or Elvis Presley movies. The film was directed by John Waters. Johnny Depp plays the role of the role of Wade Walker, a rebellious rock'n'rollers the 1950s and leader of the Drapes. Also starring Amy Locane, Iggy Pop, Traci Lords and Patty Hearst are seen. After Cry-Baby by initially fell but he later became a cult film.
Action
The plot revolves around the gang Drapes and their opponents, the Squares (German philistine ) in Baltimore in the 1950s. Cry-Baby Walker, the leader of the Drapes, and Allison, a friend of Baldwin, the leader of the squares, fall in love and put the city in an uproar.
After instigated by the Squares brawl between the two groups Cry-Baby is arrested. He has to work as juvenile offenders up to age 21 in a youth detention center. There he learns that Allison considers him a liar, because another girl has claimed to the press, to be his girlfriend and expecting a child by him.
The Drapes undertake a rescue operation and land a helicopter in the prison, but fail. An escape attempt by Cry-Baby through the sewer ends at the feet of the prison guards in the prison 's own hairdressing salon. Cry-Baby in danger of losing his head of hair, it is a crew cut threatened.
At a festival in which Allison sings with Baldwin, diving on the Drapes and explain to her that Cry-Baby she needs.
Allison's grandmother gives her granddaughter the Council to choose the man who loves them the most. Allison then pleads to the judge by the music asks, Cry-Baby to release what the judge will also do just before the forced haircut.
With the release of the dispute between Drapes and Squares comes to its climax. Cry-Baby and Baldwin make a car race in which they race towards each other lying on the car roof; who evades first is a " cowardly chicken" ( chicken, see Feiglingsspiel ). As Baldwin and his friends think are Allison's grandmother was one of their own, they force them to ride in the car. In Cry - baby car his pregnant sister goes with that brings during the race their third child into the world and accepts the marriage proposal of her boyfriend Joe Toc. The race goes to Cry babies of favor and he and Allison find each other.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on April 6, 1990, he was only now able to recognize the 1950s. He continued to write, it belongs to human history, nostalgic longing for the wickedness of the young people of the previous generation and to care very much about the contemporary youth. The film recall.
" A bright pop musical, whose style principle is the coarsening, but the generated proceeds of a large part of its entertaining moments. Not a movie for everyone, but young audience may well entertain this thought out of mischief. "
Background
Production costs amounted to approximately 12 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA a about 8.3 million U.S. dollars. James Intveld and Rachel Sweet borrowed Johnny Depp and Amy Locane their voices for the songs.