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Cry-Baby is a 1990 satirical teen romantic comedy film written and directed by John Waters.

Set in The '50s, it tells the classic story of Star-Crossed Lovers — "square" Allison Vernon-Williams (Amy Locane) falls for Wade "Weep-Baby" Walker (Johnny Depp), leader of the local "drapes" in their Baltimore neighborhood — and the upheaval their romance causes between the hillbilly drapes and the uptight squares.

Did we mention it's a musical?

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Cry-Babe provides examples of the following tropes:

• Action Dress Rip: The motorcycle stunt in the climax.
• Adaptation Expansion: The stage musical transforms Cry-Baby'due south would-exist girlfriend Lenora into a bona-fide Stalker with a Beat. It as well claims that Cry-Babe'southward parents were sent to the electrical chair for beingness suspected Communist spies and that Baldwin'southward grandad was responsible for it happening. It also includes scenes of Wanda, Pepper and Hatchet-Face in a girls reform school, while Cry-Baby and Dupree are in jail.
• Adrenaline Makeover: What the drapettes do for Allison. It mainly involves Letting Her Pilus Downwardly, and giving her a pair of pare-tight pedal-pushers and a bustier top.
• Affectionate Parody: Of 1950s juvenile delinquent flicks, and the jukebox musicals of the same era.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Quote Allison when she sees Weep-Baby, "I am and so tired of being expert."
• Alliterative Name: Wade Walker. Both names mean "walk".
• Babies Ever After: In the pic's end, Pepper gives birth to a baby boy and her swain proposes to her, which she happily accepts.
• Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Averted, with Lenora, and Allison, who Cry-Babe idea was beautiful fifty-fifty earlier her sexy makeover.
• Berserk Push button: Lightning drives Cry-Baby crazy considering both of his parents died by electricity. Baldwin even rubs this fact in by revealing that information technology was his granddaddy who set off the chair that killed them.
• Butter Face: Played with, the aptly named Hatchetface is introduced in the classic "gag" manner in the opening scene, where two hoodlums standing in line backside her waiting to get vaccinations achieve for her attractively swaying bottom-just to be shocked when she turns around and reveals her flattened nose, crossed optics, and horrible teeth. Averted in the balance of the moving-picture show, though-she has a very happy relationship with one of the male characters of the film, and none of the Drapes treat her whatever differently than the gorgeous Wanda, played past Traci Lords.
• Military camp: Well, information technology is John Waters, after all.
• Car Fu: The "chicken" showdown at the climax.
• Censored for One-act: Invoked in the original theatrical release, equally Waters was merely allowed i F-word so equally to not compromise the more attainable PG-13 rating. That i unbleeped instance turns into a Funny Moment:

  Wanda: Would you just get me the [BLEEP] out of here?!

  Mrs. Woodward: What's [BLEEP] mean, Hector?

  Mr. Woodward: Oh, Meg, it'due south merely a teen nonsense discussion Wanda uses to make herself feel all grown up.

  Mrs. Woodward: Your Award, can we take Wanda the fuck dwelling house?

  (Court audience and reporters gasp and laughs)

  • This exchange is completely uncensored in the manager'southward cutting.
• Chick Magnet: Weep-Baby, of course.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Both Allison and Cry-Baby; her parents were killed in two different plane crashes, while his father was the Alphabet Bomber, and was executed in the electric chair, besides as his married woman, when she tried to intervene on his behalf.
• Cool Old Lady: Although initially as formal and uptight equally the other Squares, Mrs. Vernon-Williams becomes more of this equally the film progresses.
• Crowd Song: The Whiffles' cross-town performance of the Bunny Hop, "Please Mr. Jailer" and "High School Hellcats".
• Damsel in Distress: During the Craven race, the Whiffles force Mrs. Vernon-Williams in their car.
• Dartboard of Hate: Ramona has a dartboard with Mrs. Vernon-Williams'due south confront painted on it.
• Dark Is Not Evil / Lite Is Not Expert: The Drapes and Squares, respectively.
• Delinquents
• Disappeared Dad: The father of Pepper's children is unknown and, every bit far equally we know, nowhere to be seen.
• Pulsate Bathing: We first see Iggy Pop bathing in a little metal tub in the yard - he cheerfully exclaims "Ya defenseless me in my birthday suit!"
• Embarrassing First Name: Wade "Cry-Infant" Walker never goes by his first name.
• Evil Cannot Cover Good: Well, more like White Cannot Comprehend Hip.
• Face of a Thug: Mona, aka "Hatchet-Face".
• Felony Misdemeanor:
  • "Electricity makes me INSANE!"
  • "Are you lot enlightened that Negroes were present at tonight'due south disturbance?"
• The '50s: The film takes place in 1954.
• Freudian Excuse: Cry-Baby has to practice one rotten thing every day to avenge his parents, both of whom died in the electric chair.
• The Fundamentalist: Boy howdy. Milton's parents.
• Generation Xerox: Cry-Baby's and Pepper'south parents and grandparents could qualify for this. Milton'south extremely conservative parents and Wanda's Stepford Smiler parents largely avert this.
• Giant Medical Syringe: The students are shown in the film's opening getting their school vaccinations with big needles.
• Girl Posse: The Cry-Baby girls, to a degree.
• Heel–Face Plow: The guess and Mrs. Vernon-Williams allow Cry-Infant and several of the other drapes out of jail at the end. Lenora besides sides with the squares for a shot at redemption.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Milton and Hatchet-Face
• "I Am" Song: "King Weep-Infant" and "High-School Hellcats".
• Informed Attribute: The Drapes' bad, evil ways. We hear that Hatchet-Face is so tough she coulda eaten nails for breakfast, that Pepper's pregnant but she fights as good as whatever man, that Milton is "young, stupid and mean", and the song "Loftier-Schoolhouse Hellcats" says that all of Cry-Babe's gang is "Friends of the devil, twice as hateful", but nosotros never see whatever bear witness of this, except the fashion they dress.
• Incest Subtext: During the sweethearts trip the light fantastic to 50's love songs and everyone is paired up and making out with their meaning other, Pepper's kids Snaredrum and Suzy Q are seen dancing together to a love song. Though this would exist justified since at that place'southward no other kids are around for them to dance with.
• Ironic Proper name: Lenora Frigid seems very open to flirting with Anything That Moves.
• Jerkass: Allison's boyfriend, Baldwin.
• Kick the Dog: Many "square" characters do this to Cry-Baby and the other drapes, but only Baldwin seems to get real joy out of it.
• Big Ham: Most of the cast, just specially Johnny Depp, particularly during his Freudian Alibi monologue.
• Mad Bomber: Wade "Cry Baby" Walker'due south father was the "Alphabet Bomber", who bombed buildings in alphabetical order. He got the electric chair.
• Mama Bear: A heavily meaning Pepper fights for her kids when they become taken away to an orphanage.
• Mama'south Baby, Papa's Maybe: Information technology's never known whether Pepper's current young man is the begetter of her unborn infant or if a previous boyfriend is. Either way, he's happy to help her raise her three kids together.
• Make-Out Bespeak: There'due south 1 at Turkey Indicate, where Allison learns to French-buss. In the phase play, the ready-upwardly is used at the properties for the tender ballad "Girl, Can I Kiss You (With Tongue)."
• Manly Tears: Cry-Baby is known for his ability to shed a single tear.
• The New Stone & Roll: Equally the film is prepare in 1953, it's not satanic even so, just trashy "race music".
• Nada just Hits: Largely averted, except with the land club's talent testify performances of "A Teenage Prayer" and "Sh-Boom".
• Politically Correct History: Sort of: most of the Squares are openly prejudiced against black people, simply the Drapes appear to accept no problem with them.
• Significant Badass: Pepper who manages to put upwards a tough fight in times of danger fifty-fifty before she gives birth in the film's climax.
  • Of course, this may be because "regular/moderate" smoking takes years if not DECADES to take effect.
• Lamentable-Times Montage: "Teardrops are Falling" includes Allison drinking a jar full of her own tears.
• Scatting: The stage musical's vocal "Baby Baby Baby Baby (Babe Baby)" parodies the scat-like lyrics in rockabilly music.
• Screen-to-Stage Adaptation
• Seemingly-Wholesome '50s Girl: Allison eventually develops into one of these. She remains more or less her sweet self, but now she'southward a delinquent's girlfriend, and more inclined to less bourgeois outfits.
• Separated by the Wall: Allison and Cry-Baby gyrate on opposite sides of the glass bulwark in "Delight, Mr. Jailer".
• Shout-Out
  • Breaking Cry-Babe out of jail and Pepper's kids out of the orphanage pays tribute to The Benny Hill Show.
  • Depp's performance also evokes a young Elvis Presley.
• Single Tear: The secret to Weep-Baby'southward sex entreatment. Aside from beingness played by Johnny Depp, of course.
• Smoking Is Absurd: Played straight with Cry-Baby, but averted with Hatchet-Confront's parents, ane of whom ends upwards in an fe lung.
• Smoking Is Not Cool: While the remainder of the teenage Drapes, Squares and townspeople smoke cigarettes vicariously showing little to no effects, Hatchet-Face's mother is shown to exist quite a heavy smoker, coughing violently even though she continues to fume the cigarettes. This soon results in her existence put in an iron lung machine for support while she and her husband prove no shame for their actions and instead put the arraign on their simply daughter Hatchet-Face in front of the whole courtroom.
• Speaking Like Totally Teen: The one-time Trope Namer is "Get a Load of that Square", near quoted word for word.
• Spiritual Successor: To Hairspray.
• Spinning Newspaper
• Stalker with a Crush: Lenora. Made even more breathy in The Musical.
• That Nostalgia Bear witness
• That Reminds Me of a Song: Almost all the songs start like this, particularly in the 2nd half.
• "The Reason You Suck" Oral communication: Mrs. Vernon-Williams gives a brief and well-deserved one to Lenora for her behavior

  Mrs. Vernon-Williams: You may be a foursquare Lenora, but you lot're withal a tramp!

  • Pepper gives her a similar one, saying that her brother likes his girls "bad, non inexpensive."
• Trash Landing: Hatchet-Face and her young man escape the police chasing after them past diving into a large garbage truck and hiding inside of the garbage while the truck drives them away.
• Victoria'due south Clandestine Compartment: Pepper keeps a switchblade in her bra.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: On 1 of the deleted scenes.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Pepper's son, Snare-Drum, and her daughter, Susie-Q.
• Why Did Information technology Take to Be Snakes?: Baldwin and the Whiffles' reactions to "colored" music and drapes, in full general.
• Window Dearest: "Delight, Mr. Jailer", a vocal and dance number which the director says was inspired by peep shows and gloryholes.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Lenora pretends to be pregnant with Weep-Baby'due south child to split him and Allison upwardly, and Baldwin does the same when harassing the Drapes at Turkey Indicate: "They beat me and kicked me; all because I beloved you lot."
• Yank the Dog's Chain: The prison guards to the Drapes.
• You Put the "Ten" in "XY": Ramona says, "You put the T in tough!"

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