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Cry-Baby (1990) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The tattooed teardrop on Cry-Baby's face at the end of the movie appears and disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: During the big dance scene in the jail with all the inmates, Cry-Baby's shirt is, from some camera angles, open all the way, and from other camera angles, just half way open.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When all of the drapes are being taken into the courthouse to see the judge, Allison comes in with handcuffs on. The next time we see her, she has the handcuffs off.
  
  

• Continuity: During Cry-Baby's band's performance at Turkey Point, Hatchet Face uses different types of saxophones between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning when they are waiting to get a shot, Wanda is standing in front of a girl with a red dress. Then suddenly she stands behind the girl.
  
  
• Continuity: When Allison is singing with the "Squares", after she adjusts the microphone she is on the other side and the microphones' lengths change between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cry-baby is talking to Allison in the beginning of the movie, Wanda takes the lollipop out of her mouth but in the next shot it is back in her mouth.
  
  
• Factual errors: The prisoners are wearing 3D glasses while watching "Creature From the Black Lagoon", but the print they're viewing is normal black-and-white.
  
  
• Continuity: Allison's hair changes length during the film. In the final scene at the end her goes from shoulder length to past her collar bone when she is singing.
  
  
• Continuity: After the immunizations, in the scene were Allison talks to the drapes for the first time, Lenora is standing on the steps trying to pose. The scene shoots away from her, but when it shoots back to her, her hair barrette has changed sides.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Cry Baby signals for Allison to come sing with him, his hand leaves the guitar strings but you can hear the guitar playing.
  
  
• Continuity: During the song "Please Mister Jailer," when Allison is dancing on the car, her hair is blowing across her eyes but in the close ups it's pulled away from her face.
  
  
• Continuity: In the courtroom, when the tire on Hatchet-Face's mothers "iron lung" blows out, you can see a cigarette-butt on the floor right next to the wheel, and when it cuts back to the main shot, her father throws the cigarette to the floor.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The movie is set in 1954 (given away by the banner in the gymnasium during the polio vaccinations that reads "Congratulations Class of 54!"). However, Milton is seen reading a copy of "Tales To Astonish #12" in Ramona's house. That comic came out in October 1960.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening of the film we see Wanda from a far with the girl in red that she growls at behind her. Yet when the camera comes closer the girl in red is in front of Wanda.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While their making license plates and singing in the prison with Cry-Baby it's obvious they're not hitting their hammers against anything.
  
  

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