• Friday, April 06, 1990

• Language:

  English

• Runtime:

  85 min / USA:91 min (director's cut)

1990

Goofs

• Continuity: The tattooed teardrop on Cry-Baby's face at the end of the movie appears and disappears.
• Continuity: During the big dance scene in the jail with all the inmates, Cry-Baby's shirt is, from some camera angles, open all the way, and from other camera angles, just half way open.
• Continuity: During Cry-Baby's band's performance at Turkey Point, Hatchet Face uses different types of saxophones between shots.
• Continuity: At the beginning when they are waiting to get a shot, Wanda is standing in front of a girl with a red dress. Then suddenly she stands behind the girl.
• Continuity: When Allison is singing with the "Squares", after she adjusts the microphone she is on the other side and the microphones' lengths change between shots.
• Continuity: When Cry-baby is talking to Allison in the beginning of the movie, Wanda takes the lollipop out of her mouth but in the next shot it is back in her mouth.
• Continuity: Allison's hair changes length during the film. In the final scene at the end her goes from shoulder length to past her collar bone when she is singing.
• Continuity: After the immunizations, in the scene were Allison talks to the drapes for the first time, Lenora is standing on the steps trying to pose. The scene shoots away from her, but when it shoots back to her, her hair barrette has changed sides.
• Continuity: During the song "Please Mister Jailer," when Allison is dancing on the car, her hair is blowing across her eyes but in the close ups it's pulled away from her face.
• Continuity: In the courtroom, when the tire on Hatchet-Face's mothers "iron lung" blows out, you can see a cigarette-butt on the floor right next to the wheel, and when it cuts back to the main shot, her father throws the cigarette to the floor.

Taglines

• Good girls want him bad. Bad girls want him worse.
• He's a doll. He's a dreamboat. He's a delinquent.

Trivias

• To find a young actor for the role of Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, director John Waters bought $30 worth of teen magazines, all of which showed Johnny Depp of "21 Jump Street" (1987) on the cover. Depp thought the script was funny and strange, and took the offbeat role to avoid being typecast as a TV teen idol.
• John Waters' first "major studio" film, with a week of re-shoots and six months of post production done in California.
• James Intveld and Rachel Sweet did the singing for Johnny Depp and Amy Locane.
• The original musical director of this film was Al Kooper. When he was dismissed from the movie he was replaced by Dave Alvin.
• Originally, the square's show at the beginning was going to feature a child contortionist. The scene was filmed in its entirety with the contortionist, but the scene was later cut for the premiere. The contortionist was at the premiere, but no-one had thought to tell her that they cut her scene.
• Tom Cruise, Robert Downey Jr. and Jim Carrey were all considered for the role of Cry-Baby until Johnny Depp was cast.
• While although the tattoo of the name "Cry-Baby" on Johnny Depp's arm is a fake, the Native American tattoo above it is real.
• Like the successful "Hairspray", this John Waters movie was turned into a Broadway musical, with all new songs. Unfortunately, it ran for just under two months (April 24 to June 22, 2008). John Waters was involved as creative consultant.
• The original Broadway production of "Cry-Baby" opened at the Marquis Theater in New York on April 24, 2008, ran for 68 performances and was nominated for the 2008 Tony Awards for the Best Musical, Book and Score.