There goes my baby movie
The film only grossed $123,509 at the box office.
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In August 1994, Variety said the film was a "riveting, infectious comic drama has a real shot at sleeper success with proper support." TV Guide called it the "most overwrought celebration of coming of age in the 1960s since Arthur Penn's catastrophic Four Friends.
Today, he owns a surf shop in Laguna Beach called Stick’s Paradise. Stick won a Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam. Poor Tracy, she was married three times and in and out of the Betty Ford Clinic. In 1982, he was elected to the United States Senate. Calvin graduated from Princeton and became a successful lawyer. Today, she produces a successful rock-n-roll show. Babette hung out and toured in the music business for 10 years. He was drafted into the Army and killed in action in the Mekong Delta. Sunshine remains my best friend today, and I’m the godmother of her 25-year-old son, whose name is Pirate.
Of course, I haven’t seen any of them since that night, except for Sunshine. I said we’d be best friends forever, and I will never forget you. "Pop was right they tore down the Paradise and put up a shopping mall. In the final scene, we learn the fate of all the characters from the movie, via a voice-over from Mary Beth: Sunshine and Pirate part ways in the parking lot of Pops, as she boards a Volkswagen Bus headed for the Bay Area. Sunshine makes the decision, while speaking with Mary Beth, to keep the baby but not to tell Pirate. Babette, meanwhile, has lucked out and gotten her wish to perform on Shindig, singing " Leader of the Pack". Stick freaks out about his impending deployment but is calmed down by Pops and his friends. Finnegan makes a decision to make a stand on his friend's behalf and returns to the high school, where he burns the bronze statue on the front lawn. As the evening draws to a close, they learn their friend, Morrisey, has hanged himself in his cell. And, Stick and Finnegan struggle with their positions on the draft and the war. Tracy is distraught over her break-up with Finnegan. Pirate and Sunshine struggle over what to do about the baby. The next day, his grandmother safe, Calvin returns to his job at Pops. We also find out that Babette is going to attempt to get on a local, live rock and roll program, Shindig, the following night. Finnegan, meanwhile, breaks up with his girlfriend, Tracy, due to her neediness and seeming lack of understanding. Pirate finds out about a place where Sunshine can have an abortion. Later that night, Pirate learns that Sunshine is pregnant, and neither know what they want to do with the baby. During the protest, he burns his draft card and is arrested. When Finnegan gets back to Pops, he finds out that another of their friends, Morrisey, who has been distraught over the death of his brother several months earlier in the Vietnam War, has gone back to the high school to make some sort of protest. We also learn that Stick is scheduled to report to basic training for the army in two days, after he has enlisted. When Finnegan is attacked by a group of rioters, Calvin sends him home, while he continues on to find his grandmother. Finnegan, whose family has unofficially adopted Calvin, drives him into the riot zone. Calvin, who lives in Watts, fears for his grandmother's safety. 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 UCLA.Īs the night progresses, the Watts riots begin.
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to earn a full scholarship to Princeton University. Calvin is the first graduate of Westwood H.S. Finnegan wants to be a poet, and Babette dreams of a career as a singer, while Tracy simply dreams of finding love. Stick just wants to surf, but he's being shipped off to Vietnam in a few days. Pirate dreams of traveling the country, and his girlfriend, Sunshine, wants to move to San Francisco to become a flower child. Throughout the film, the soundtrack is provided by The Beard, a DJ at the local AM radio station. Over the course of the night, we learn of the hopes, dreams and fears of a close-knit group of friends. Pops is scheduled for demolition in two days, to make way for a mall. That night, they all meet at the local teenage hangout, "Pop's Paradise Café". Now it's four years later, and that class is experiencing their last day of school. In the article they are called the future of the country. In 1961 the freshman class of Westwood High School in Los Angeles is profiled in Look magazine.