After spending some time moonlighting as an undercover NARC on the streets of Vancouver (21 Jump Street, to be exact - I think it's somewhere in East Van) Johnny Depp made waves as Cry Baby Walker in John Waters' 1990 musical ode to the weirdness of Baltimore's 1950s teenage class structure, Cry Baby.
Oh, Hatchetface.
Thanks to popular demand Vancouver is Awesome's favourite (full disclosure - we're co-sponsoring!) East Van indie-movie house is going to be presenting a midnight screening of Cry Baby this Friday, April 1! Admission is $8 - unless you come decked out as a pin-up, a jailbird, a drape, or an unwed teenage mom who uses her "bazooms as weapons" - in which case admission is only $7. For more information, go HERE or HERE.
Extra points if you know all the words and can sing along.
If you have not seen this movie then you lose serious points (with me, anyway) in terms of pop-culture savvy. This was the first John Waters feature I ever saw (at the impressionable age of 10) and I've been a huge fan ever since. Specifically, Cry Baby's group kissing scene warped my brain, scarred me emotionally, and left me with a lifetime of intimacy issues... hopefully seeing it on the big screen (finally!) will clear that up. Just what the doctor ordered.
(For realsies.)
... and for a chance to win some passes to tomorrow's midnight screening, put on your John Waters trivia hat and follow @VIAGiveaways on ye olde Twitter... just sayin.'
