Cry baby

Resource Information

The work Cry baby represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Cry baby

Statement of responsibility

a Universal picture ; [presented by] Imagine Entertainment ; producer, Rachel Talalay ; written and directed by John Waters

Contributor

• Focus Features
• Imagine Entertainment (Firm)
• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Bergen, Polly, 1930-2014
• Burrows, Darren E., 1966-
• Dafoe, Willem
• Dallesandro, Joe, 1948-
• Depp, Johnny
• Donahue, Troy, 1936-2001
• Eastside, Lori
• Hearst, Patricia, 1954-
• Heatherton, Joey
• Insley, David
• Lake, Ricki
• Locane, Amy, 1971-
• Lords, Traci
• Mailer, Stephen, 1966-
• Nelson, David, 1936-2011
• Pop, Iggy, 1947-
• Stole, Mink
• Talalay, Rachel, 1958-
• Tyrrell, Susan, 1945-2012
• Waters, John, 1946-
• Williams, Patrick, 1939-2018

Subject

• Comedy films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• High school students
• High school students -- Drama
• Nineteen fifties
• Nineteen fifties -- Drama
• Parody films
• Parody films
• Teenagers
• Teenagers -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Comedy films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Parody films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

A spoof and homage to 1950's teen rock melodramas. Cry Baby is a rebel with a gang of rough friends. Allison is the straight-laced girl who falls for him

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Patrick Williams ; editing, Janice Hampton ; director of photography, David Insley ; choreography, Lori Eastside

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

Language note

Soundtrack in English with French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.C788 2005

PerformerNote

Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Stephen Mailer, Darren E. Burrows, Kim McGuire, Polly Bergen, Patricia Hearst, David Nelson, Troy Donahue, Mink Stole, Joe Dallesandro, Joey Heatherton, Willem Dafoe

Runtime

92

Target audience

pre adolescent

Technique

live action