Following Sean Trailer

Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck first met Sean while living as a graduate student in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood 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.

Thirty years, three generations, and a lifetime later, Arlyck has returned to San Francisco in search of who the adult Sean might have become. And what he finds, to his surprise, tells him as much about his own east-coast migration as it does about the Californian life he left behind-that the choices we're handed and the choices we make are, very often, quite odd bedfellows.

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[ShittyKittty]

i love this movie to death! but i can't find the dvd anywhere =(

[Magnettics]

I hear it is on Netflix now.

[7octopusgarden18]

@ShittyKittty if you go to blockbuster, you can tell em you want to rent it and theyll mail it to your place n you just gotta send it back in a few days its like netflix thats how i watched it \

[DeepestSleep]

@ShittyKittty try letmewatchthis . com

[robinsoncruros]

i saw this movie yesterday, you can watch with french subtitle on : videos.arte.tv  and enter following sean

[wrathallll]

@Magnettics it is...but u have to live in the states to be able to watch it :(

[easterday89]

ich hab ihn auch auf arte gesehen. Hammer Film!

Does anybody know a few songs from it? I love them! I only found Never die young. (Great song by the way!)

[Luckass00]

I saw it tonight in german television.

I really enjoyed it. A wonderful movie.

[szabikabika]

just viewed it on netflix, the best documentary I have ever seen!

[CurryOrgy]

A truly remarkable film. Cant wait to see it again.

[ImperialPimp]

Wow, this looks really, really interesting...