There Goes My Baby (film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Floyd Mutrux |
| Produced by |
Robert Shapiro Barry Spikings Rick Finkelstein |
| Written by | Floyd Mutrux |
| Starring |
Dermot Mulroney Rick Schroder Noah Wyle Kelli Williams Lucy Deakins |
| Narrated by | Anne Archer |
| Music by | Dick Bernstein Budd Carr |
| Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
| Edited by |
Danford B. Greene Maysie Hoy |
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| Distributed by | Orion Pictures Corporation |
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Release date
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September 2, 1994 |
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Running time
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99 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10.5 million |
| Box office | $123,509 |
There Goes My Baby (also released as The Last Days of Paradise) is a 1994 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Floyd Mutrux and starring Dermot Mulroney, Rick Schroder, Noah Wyle, Lucy Deakins, and Kelli Williams.
Told from the point of view of the class valedictorian, Mary Beth, the story follows a group of high school seniors during the 1965 Watts Riots. The film was finished and originally intended for a theatrical run in 1991, however, it did not receive its release until September 2, 1994.
In 1961 the freshman class of Westwood High School in Los Angeles is profiled in Look magazine. In the article they are called the future of the country. Now it's four years later, and that class is experiencing their last day of school. That night, they all meet at the local teenage hangout, "Pop's Paradise Café". Pops is scheduled for demolition in two days, to make way for a mall. Over the course of the night, we learn of the hopes, dreams and fears of a close-knit group of friends. Throughout the film, the soundtrack is provided by The Beard, a DJ at the local AM radio station.
Pirate dreams of traveling the country, and his girlfriend, Sunshine, wants to move to San Francisco to become a flower child. Stick just wants to surf, but he's being shipped off to Vietnam in a few days. Finnegan wants to be a poet, and Babette dreams of a career as a singer, while Tracy simply dreams of finding love. Calvin is the first graduate of Westwood H.S. to earn a full scholarship to Princeton University. Mary Beth, whose adult persona serves as the narrator for the film, is arguing with her parents; she wants to go to University of California, Berkeley, while her parents want her to stay closer to home and attend U.C.L.A..
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