There Goes My Baby
1994 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
In the summer of 1965, strict high-school Westwood's senior class in its privileged white suburb of L.A. graduates. Their relief to get out of the oppressive model of 'good American' behavior none actually adopted is soon spoiled. Surfer boy George Jr. 'Stick' is enlisting as volunteer for Vietnam, which is portrayed as a 'police action', panics on his last evening. Academic weakling Pirate, who intended to dodge a draft as drifter, suddenly faces the pregnancy of his lifelong true love Sunny. A spoiled 'princess' (also narrator) bitches because her parents want her to attend UCLA, not 'revolutionary' Berkeley. Calvin, the only black mate, lives in the poor quarter Watts, where the majority of his race plunders and attacks everyone, including class poet Michael Finnegan, whose family treated Calvin as an adopted son. Finnegan decides to symbolically deal with the hated school principal's patriotic pride, the Soldier statue...
Direction Floyd Mutrux
Cast Dermot Mulroney · Rick Schroder · Kelli Williams · Noah Wyle · Jill Schoelen · Kristin Minter · Lucy Deakins · Kenneth Ransom · Seymour Cassel · Paul Gleason · Frederick Coffin · Janet MacLachlan · Andrew Robinson · Mark Ruffalo · Christian Jacobs
Screenplay Floyd Mutrux
Cinematography William A. Fraker
Original title There Goes My Baby
5.9
46 votes (FilmAffinity)
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