CRY-BABY -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY |
[music playing] [people chattering] [girls chattering] [microphone squeaks] [MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen [AUDIENCE] Good afternoon, Mrs. Vernon-Williams. [MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] First, I must apologize for my frazzled nerves. [ALL] [gasp] [MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] It's all right. No one was injured. [WOMAN 1] I can't believe it. [WOMAN 2] How disgusting. [MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Girls who wear tight slacks. [ALL] [murmuring] [MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS]
And if one of these creatures [ALL] Beauty, brains, [ALL] [applauding] [MRS. VERNON WILLIAMS] Yes! Yes! *** [TURKEY POINT SWIM CLUB] [MR. HACKETT] Teenagers everywhere repent! [TOE-JOE] Oh, take it easy, honey. I'm not getting any younger here, you know. You got it, what the hell, why not show it, right? [WANDA] Beat it, creep. [MRS. HACKETT] Here he comes now, with that devil woman. [HATCHET-FACE] Hi, Mrs. Hackett. [MR. HACKETT] Imagine our shame. [MILTON] Jeez, Mom and Dad, go home. *** [music playing] [LENORA] Hey! [MILTON] Looks like somebody lost their laundry. [LENORA] Hello, Cry-Baby. You scorch me, man. [WADE] Later, Lenora. [LENORA] But, Cry-Baby, I need a date for tonight's Jukebox Jamboree. [WADE] Well, I'm solo, sugar. [LENORA] Want to see these gunboats? I give, Cry-Baby. [WADE] Use your mentality and cool down. [WANDA] Well, Lenora, your bosoms ain't nothing. [HATCHET-FACE] Better watch it, bozo. You might catch a cold. [PEPPER] My brother wouldn't touch your titties with a 10-foot pole. ***
[Sh Boom Playing] [BALDWIN]
[scatting] Oh, life could be a dream [GIRLS] [chattering] [BALDWIN & GANG] [Scatting]
Life could be a dream sweetheart If only all my precious plans Sweetheart [GIRLS] [squealing] [BALDWIN & GANG] [Scatting]
Now every time I look at you If you do what I want you to do Oh, life could be a dream Hello hello again, sh-boom and hopin' we'll meet again Life could be a dream sweetheart [ALL] [applauding] *** [WADE] Uncle Belvedere! [BELVEDERE] Wow! butt-naked. [PEPPER] Grandma, we're home! *** [DUPREE] How much? [RAMONA] That muffler? [DUPREE] Come on, Ramona. [RAMONA] You guys wanna do business with Ramona Rickettes Now, give me the bread and keep your trap shut. [DUPREE] You're a hard woman. [RAMONA] I'm going to see you in hell, Dupree. [laughing] Go on, get out of here. [KIDS] [chattering] [PEPPER] Have you been bothering your great-grandma all day? [BELVEDERE] Hell, no. They helped me steal a car. [SNARE-DRUM] It's a '51 Olds. [PEPPER] That's my little Snare-Drum. [SUSIE Q] And Ma, I swiped six hubcaps like a big girl. [PEPPER] Way to go, Susie-Q. [SNARE DRUM] Make those monster faces, Hatchet. Please. [HATCHET-FACE] [howling] [KIDS] [screaming] [RAMONA] Goddamn gopher's digging up my front yard. [DRAPES] [cheering] *** [BELVEDERE] Come on. Come on, everybody. Come on in. [DRAPES ] [whooping] [RAMONA] I'm just so proud of all my Drape children. [WANDA] I wish you and Belvedere were my parents. [RAMONA] Oh. You're young, stupid, and mean. [MILTON] We're gonna play some cool music for you tonight, Ramona. [RAMONA] And, Hatchet-Face. Oh, honey. You're just like me. But that's the way a woman's got to be these days. [HATCHET-FACE] I'd kick a Square's ass for you in a minute, Mrs. Rickettes. [RAMONA] Oh, this is the best gang my grandson could ever have. [PEPPER] Grandma, I'm so happy all knocked up [RAMONA] Well, we got a little surprise for your young one in your oven. [BELVEDERE] Sure will. [WADE] Oh, Pep, ain't that cute? [PEPPER] It's beautiful, Grandma. [RAMONA] Cry-Baby. [BELVEDERE] But I taught you how to dress, didn't I? [WADE] You sure did, Uncle Belvedere. [RAMONA] Yeah, well, you're the future now, boy. And I want you to go out there tonight and sing, boy. [DRAPES] [gasping] [WADE] Grandmother, Uncle Belvedere, you've made me the happiest juvenile delinquent in Baltimore. [motorcycle engine rumbling] [WADE] I met a girl! *** [A Teenage Prayer Playing] [ALLISON] [singing] My friends all know it How I adore him What I'd do for him He won't go steady To have him hold me I wait by the window at seven His kiss could send me to heaven Into his arms I would fly *** [My Heart Goes by Nappy Brown playing]
My heart goes *** |