Baby is a 2007 independent film, considered part of the hood film genre. The film tells the story of an Asian-American youth's gang life in East Los Angeles, set during the mid '80s to the early '90s. Directed by Juwan Chung and starring David Huynh, Tzi Ma, Feodor Chin, Ron Yuan and Kenneth Choi. It has been called "the Asian American Boyz n the Hood" by the San Francisco Chronicle. The film won Best Narrative Feature at the 2007 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and a Special Jury Award for "Outstanding Newcomer" for star David Huynh at the same film festival that year, and a Best Director award for Director Juwan Chung at the 2008 DisOrient Film Festival. It was also distributed by Lionsgate.
Baby is the tragic story of an Asian-American youth trapped in the seedy, dead-end world of hostess bars, pool halls and drug dens that characterize East Los Angeles gang life in the 1980s. Baby (Ryan Andres) is a motherless, poverty stricken 11-year-old with only an alcoholic father (Tzi Ma) to raise him. Things only get worse when he's taken under the wing of his gangster neighbor Tommy (Ron Yuan), who leads him down a path that lands him in Juvenile Hall for manslaughter, with Benny (Feodor Chin) ostracizing Baby from the group. After seven violent years in prison, Baby (now portrayed by David Huynh) is released, but struggles to fit into a society that rejects him, and soon returns to a life of drugs, street gangs and murder, while Benny has risen through the ranks to become the local Crime Boss for a side of the Wah Ching Triad. Only his childhood friends and a lost love offer him any hope of turning his life around before it's too late.
Baby, baby
What you got on your mind
You're in a hurry
Baby, baby
This ain't nothing new
The world is turning
Baby, baby
Let's just let it slide
We got time
Baby, oh baby
I'm your baby
And baby
You are mine
Tell me, oh tell me
What are your plans
Can I go with you
Tell me, tell me
If you are going up
I'm right behind you
Tell me, tell me
The secrets in your eyes
You can't lie
Oh and tell me, oh tell me
I'm your baby
And baby
You are mine
Sail me, oh sail me
Let's float away
Take me to heaven
Sail me, sail me
Write me in your plans
Hurry, hurry
Sail me, sail me
I'm your puppet
You just pull my strings
Baby, oh baby
I'm your baby
And baby
You are mine
Baby, oh baby
I'm your baby
And baby