Cry-Baby
“Good girls want him bad. Bad girls want him worse.”
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Cry-Baby performed
Budget
$11.0M
Worldwide Gross
$8.3M
Gross Profit
−$2.7M
Return
0.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker
Johnny Depp
Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker
Allison Vernon-Williams
Amy Locane
Allison Vernon-Williams
Ramona Rickettes
Susan Tyrrell
Ramona Rickettes
Baldwin
Stephen Mailer
Baldwin
Belvedere Rickettes
Iggy Pop
Belvedere Rickettes
Pepper Walker
Ricki Lake
Pepper Walker
Wanda Woodward
Traci Lords
Wanda Woodward
Milton Hackett
Darren E. Burrows
Milton Hackett
Mona 'Hatchet-Face' Malnorowski
Kim McGuire
Mona 'Hatchet-Face' Malnorowski
Mrs. Vernon-Williams
Polly Bergen
Mrs. Vernon-Williams
Wanda's Mother
Patricia Hearst
Wanda's Mother
Wanda's Father
David Nelson
Wanda's Father
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