Cult 101: Cry-Baby (1990) 4K Restoration
- Fri, Feb 14
- Sat, Feb 15
- Sun, Feb 16
Sat, Feb 15 @ 2:00 pm: 4K Presentation
Director: John Waters Run Time: 85 min. Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1990
Starring: Amy Locane, Iggy Pop, Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, Susan Tyrrell
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Eisenhower is President. Rock ’n’ Roll is king. And Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker is the baddest hood in his high school. Screen idol Johnny Depp heads up a divine cast as the irresistible bad boy whose amazing ability to shed one single tear drives all the girls wild—especially Allison Vernon-Williams (Amy Locane), a rich, beautiful “square” who finds herself uncontrollably drawn to the dreamy juvenile delinquent and his forbidden world of rockabilly music, fast cars and faster women.
It’s the hysterical high-throttle world of 1954 in this outrageous musical comedy from the marvelously maniacal mind of John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray). Also starring Susan Tyrrell, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Kim McGuire, Darren E. Burrows, Stephen Mailer and Polly Bergen, with appearances by Troy Donahue, Mink Stole, Joe Dallesandro, Joey Heatherton, David Nelson, Willem Dafoe and Patricia Hearst.
About the filmmaker:
The one and only “Pope of Trash,” John Waters has always pushed the envelope of independent cinema to bizarre, grotesque, and subversive extremes with a sense of humor and panache that makes the outrageous infectious and the blasphemous a blast. Beyond shock and thrills, his deep empathy for his characters made unlikely movie stars of Baltimore’s counterculture misfits (most famously the outré diva Divine). From scuzzy underground transgressions like MULTIPLE MANIACS and FEMALE TROUBLE to more mainstream but equally personal works like HAIRSPRAY and CRY-BABY, Waters’s gleefully perverse, wickedly funny films are celebrations of the outsiders, iconoclasts, and weirdos who refuse to conform.
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