There Goes My Baby (1994)

Director:

Floyd Mutrux

Writer (WGA):

Floyd Mutrux (written by)

Release Date:

2 September 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

It was the summer of '65. Rock 'n' roll was alive. And the future of this country went looking for America.

Plot:

In the summer of 1965, strict high-school Westwood's senior class in its privileged white suburb of L.A...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Watts Riots | War Protestor | 1960s | Hope

Cast

Dermot Mulroney	...	Pirate
Rick Schroder	...	Stick
Kelli Williams	...	Sunshine
Noah Wyle	...	Finnegan
Jill Schoelen	...	Babette
Kristin Minter	...	Tracy
Lucy Deakins	...	Mary Beth
Kenneth Ransom	...	Calvin (as Kenny Ransom)
Seymour Cassel	...	Pop
Paul Gleason	...	Mr. Burton (as Paul Xavier Gleason)
Frederick Coffin	...	Mr. Maran
Janet MacLachlan	...	Lottie
Andrew Robinson	...	Frank
Humble Harve Miller	...	The Beard
Shon Greenblatt	...	Morrisey

Also Known As:

The Last Days of Paradise (USA) (alternative title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

99 min | Germany:110 min | Australia:94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:M | Spain:13 | USA:R

Company:

Nelson Entertainment

Trivia:

Filmed in 1990, but wasn't released until four years later due to Orion Pictures' bankruptcy.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas & The Papas came out in January/February of 1966 but it's played on the radio and sung as a duet by Pirate & Sunshine in the summer of 1965.

Movie Connections:

References Cat Ballou (1965)

Soundtrack:

Angel Baby

Languid look at a frenetic time falls short...

This is a soporific display of the early anti-war (Vietnam) protest movement and roots of the middle-class youth hippie culture. There's some minimal trumpeting of the civil rights movement, but not much.

As such, it's almost sleep-inducing and lacking in character. There's nice scenery and some decent performances, good music and idealistic sentiment, but unfortunately all caught up in truly stereotypical characters, especially the high school staff, and plenty of maudlin, routine behavior. And done in a manner that lacks the same intensity of the period, a period on the verge of the breakdown of family due to social and political upheaval, large-scale demonstrations, violence-imbued war coverage on the TV news that spilled over into society in general.

It would have been more appropriate had Sunshine left in a VW van of Manson cult members rather than ordinary hippies, albeit more cynical.