#Cry baby movie movie

Into his life comes Allison ( Amy Locane), the good girl who has a crush on Cry-Baby and feels strange stirrings in her loins by the promise that he is as bad as they say.

#Cry baby movie movie

The movie tells the story of Cry-Baby himself, played by teen idol Johnny Depp as a juvenile delinquent who forever has a tear sliding halfway down his cheek, a reminder of a grief he will live with forever, a teenage tragedy that has left its mark on his soul, a lost romance. The nerds are not made much of in 'Cry-Baby,' but in my memory they were the kids who wore slide rules in their pockets and collected science fiction magazines and grew up, one suspects, to be John Waters. The squares wear crew cuts and want to go to college. The drapes slick their hair into ducktails and wear black leather jackets and are proud to be juvenile delinquents. The teenage culture is divided into three camps: the drapes, the squares, and the nerds. The movie takes place in 1954, in Baltimore, at the dawn of rock 'n' roll (one is reminded of the opening scenes of '2001,' at the dawn of man, an event less remarked at the time). Feelings like these are what John Waters' 'Cry-Baby' is about.