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There Goes My Baby

5.7

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Original title

There Goes My Baby

Year

1994

Running time

99 min.

Country

United States

Director

Floyd Mutrux

Screenwriter

Floyd Mutrux

Cast

Cinematography

William A. Fraker

Producer

Nelson Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Films de España, Orion Pictures

Genre

Drama. Comedy. Romance | 1960s

Synopsis

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...

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There Goes My Baby

1994

Floyd Mutrux

5.7

(53)