Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

bartap74match This is my favorite movie of all time. It's an ensemble film about a group of kids who graduate high school in 1965 and what they go through the summer after commencement. The cast includes a very young Noah Wyle, Dermot Mulroney, Kelli Williams (Lindsey Dole on The Practice), Rick Schroeder, and Jill Schoelen. Some critics will inevitably call it too earnest, a hodgepodge of 60s stereotypes, or a rip-off of American Graffiti (which I didn't like nearly as much), but damn it, I love this movie! I accidentally taped half of it off HBO and spent months trying to figure out just what it was. When I finally found it, everything just clicked. I can't comment on its cinematography or its artistic merit as a "serious film," but I highly recommend it to everyone who either grew up amid the social turmoil of the 1960s or just wishes they had.

Lechuguilla It's the summer of 1965 in Los Angeles. And a group of photogenic high school students contemplate their lives and their futures in this nostalgia flick aimed mostly at baby boomers. Teenage angst, emotional turmoil, and general confusion comprise the fuel for a plot that centers largely around a colorful burger joint called "Pops Paradise".Hollywood has been down this cinematic road before, many times. The screenplay here is conventional. Characters tend toward stereotypes. The kids are idealistic; the school principal is unrealistically belligerent and unsympathetic; and Pops has the requisite cool jiving disc jockey. The script's dialogue is fairly poor in that there is very little subtext.Even so, the film has terrific 1960's production design. One of the main characters drives a black 1957 Chevy, the vehicle icon of that era. And, many scenes occur at Pops wherein a parade of old cars slowly encircles the front entrance. Clothes and hairstyles are typical for that era. Overall quality of acting for the ensemble cast is acceptable. Kelli Williams, in particular, gives a nice performance as a budding flower child.Arguably, the best element of the film is the rock'n roll music. "One Fine Day", "California Dreaming", "Mama Said", "Barbara Ann", "Loco-Motion", and The Diamonds' "Little Darlin" are among the great songs, together with the title song by The Drifters.Although the film's screenplay is sub-par, elaborate production design and some great oldies but goodies give "There Goes My Baby" great 60's atmosphere and the realistic feel of a turbulent era that now seems far off and illusory, in retrospect.

rhiannonveritas Floyd Mutrux didn't work too hard when writing this movie; it is "Hollywood Knights" all over again minus the funny parts. I suppose he figured no one would notice since the movies came out fourteen years apart. Both movies even have the same radio DJ and he plays the same songs and even says the same line "From the desert to the sea...soulfully." The closing of Tubby's Drive-In (Knights) was a much better plot element than the end of (Pop's) Paradise in TGMB. I suppose this movie is supposed to focus on the deep, meaningful side of what was happening for those coming of age in 1965, but I don't really see the need for both movies. "There Goes My Baby" really comes off as a big, pointless cliché.

LeroyBrown-2 Comparison with American Graffiti is inevitable so save your money and time by renting that timeless classic. Speaking of timeliness, there was an episode of Cheers where Norm and Cliff competed on who can find the most anachronism in a movie. They would have loved this movie everything from some of the songs and some of the clothing were wrong. There were sly reference such as 'they paved paradise to put up a parking lot'. The filmmakers hoped to elicit some smiles from us but basically made me groan.The characters in this movie are incredibly politically and socially astute for teenagers. Almost as smart as the people who were in their thirties and forties when they wrote the darn movie. Very little of what the characters said were believable. Combine the bad writing and bad acting this movie just totally fail. Although, there were two exceptions Kelli Williams liven things up as the future flower child and, despite what another reviewer said, Rick Shroeder was quite good. Showing that brooding characteristic that would come to full boil in his eventual appearance in "N.Y.P.D. Blues".