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.

In 1961 the freshman class of Westwood High School in Los Angeles is profiled in Look magazine.

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.

When Finnegan is attacked by a group of rioters, Calvin sends him home, while he continues on to find his grandmother.

We also learn that Stick is scheduled to report to basic training for the army in two days, after he has enlisted.

We also find out that Babette is going to attempt to get on a local, live rock and roll program, Shindig, the following night.

Sunshine and Pirate part ways in the parking lot of Pops, as she boards a Volkswagen Bus (decorated with peace signs and flowers) headed for the Bay Area.

In the final scene, we learn the fate of all the characters from the movie, via a voice-over from Mary Beth: "Pop was right; they tore down the Paradise and put up a shopping mall.

Today, he owns a surf shop in Laguna Beach called Stick’s Paradise.

Variety said the film was a "riveting, infectious comic drama [that] has a real shot at sleeper success with proper support.

"[3] TV Guide called it the "most overwrought celebration of coming of age in the 1960s since Arthur Penn's catastrophic Four Friends.