Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
- prison
- rock 'n' roll
- jealousy
- stage
- musical
- arrest
- singer
- tears
- juvenile delinquent
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Johnny Depp
Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker
Amy Locane
Allison Vernon-Williams
Susan Tyrrell
Ramona Rickettes
Stephen Mailer
Baldwin
- Iggy Pop — Belvedere Rickettes
- Ricki Lake — Pepper Walker
- Traci Lords — Wanda Woodward
- Darren E. Burrows — Milton Hackett
- Kim McGuire — Mona 'Hatchet-Face' Malnorowski
- Polly Bergen — Mrs. Vernon-Williams
- Patricia Hearst — Wanda's Mother
- David Nelson — Wanda's Father
- Troy Donahue — Hatchet's Father
- Mink Stole — Hatchet's Mother
- Joe Dallesandro — Milton's Father
- Directed
- John Waters
- Written
- John Waters
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 1,585 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
