Fresh
For a while the actors seem intimidated by the '50s references, but the film eventually develops a musical energy that carries the day.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Cry-Baby
Good girls want him bad. Bad girls want him worse.
1990 · 1h 25m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
John Waters
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Cry-Baby
Overview
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Director and cast
- John Waters Director
- Johnny Depp as Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker
- Amy Locane as Allison Vernon-Williams
- Susan Tyrrell as Ramona Rickettes
- Stephen Mailer as Baldwin
- Iggy Pop as Belvedere Rickettes
- Ricki Lake as Pepper Walker
- Darren E. Burrows as Milton Hackett
- Kim McGuire as Mona 'Hatchet-Face' Malnorowski
- Polly Bergen as Mrs. Vernon-Williams
- Patricia Hearst Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
72%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Cry-Baby is often sweet-spirited even when its crummy, but there's also something fetid in its foolery.
Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
If Cry-Baby has a message, it's that Cry-Baby and Allison deserve each other because they're young and they're beautiful, which certainly runs counter to Waters' affection for the grotesque, the bad and the ugly.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
The wizard of odd still runs amok.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
It all adds up to zany, wide-eyed, quintessential Waters havoc -- the "kinder, gentler" 1990s brand, perhaps. But the genuine article, nonetheless.
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
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