Movie: Following Sean

Top 2 Billed Cast

Ralph Arlyck
Ralph Arlyck

Narrator (voice)

Sean Farrell
Sean Farrell

Himself

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    Following Sean

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    Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in Haight Ashbury at the height of the 1960s. The city was awash with the trappings of America’s cultural revolution-the San Francisco State University campus flooded with cops in riot gear, the Haight filled with drifters and idealists, and, on the third floor of Arlyck’s building, a come-one-come-all crashpad apartment. It was from this top floor commune that the precocious 4-year-old Sean would occasionally wander downstairs to visit and talk-and one day Arlyck turned on his camera. Sean’s casual commentary on everything from smoking pot to living with speed freaks was delivered in simple sincerity throughout the soon-to-be famous 15-minute film. This First Child of the notorious decade may have shaken the audience with his simple sentence- “Sure, I smoke pot”-but it was his barefoot impishness which would encapsulate the hope that lay in front of the nation: a promise of infinite possibility.

  • Release Date

    2006-05-05

  • Average

    6.3

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
  • Tagline

    The more things change, the more we're not the same

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  • Languages:

    English

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