FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE John Waters - Cry Baby 

A little like the'50s. I suppose. Of course, the humanity of the 80s had become even more greedy, but all in all they thought back to a conservative way of life. The Germans suffered from Helmut Kohl for sixteen years, the Americans had Reagan. And they wore lard stollen with leather jackets again. (I never wore black leather, because it took a certain image.) Anyway, I saw Cry-Baby at the movies and enjoyed it! The cast alone: Iggy Pop, Joe Dallesandro, Joey Heatherton, Willem Dafoe, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords (...). John Waters himself once said that he had now worked with everyone he had ever dreamed of. Cry-Baby plays in Baltimore in 1954. It's the time Rock'n Roll was born. Teenies can be divided into two groups: The drapes with their gelled hair and leather jackets as well as the squares with their short hair cuts. In focus: Cry-Baby aka Johnny Depp when he was a teen idol in 1990. Cry-Baby is built close to the water and it is his trademark to shed single tears. All his life he can't forget a teen romance; a tragedy! Then Allison (Amy Locane) steps into his life and immediately falls in love with Cry-Baby, because after all he has the reputation of a "bad boy". The bad guy in Cry-Baby is the "good boy" - Baldwin, who loves Allison so lying that you don't want to talk about love per se. Cry-Baby's family includes the wonderful cast from Iggy Pop to Tracy Lords - and all live on the wrong side of town. They're musicians and they're inventing rock'n'roll. All types, even all references of the 50s are installed around Cry-Baby. If there is a constant in social life, it is to long for the past. Nostalgia against the fear of here & now. The teenagers in each generation find a new way to express themselves and thus to annoy the "adults"! Cry-Baby is a film that reminds us exactly of that.