Baby It's You

Baby It's You is an American film released in 1983 written and directed by John Sayles. It stars Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano. This was Sayles' first film for a major Hollywood studio. He based the screenplay on an autobiographical story by Amy Robinson but it's also close to his own high school experiences. The film is about a romance between an upper middle class Jewish Girl named Jill Rosen (Arquette), who is bound for Sarah Lawrence Col... more

Baby It's You is an American film released in 1983 written and directed by John Sayles. It stars Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano. This was Sayles' first film for a major Hollywood studio. He based the screenplay on an autobiographical story by Amy Robinson but it's also close to his own high school experiences. The film is about a romance between an upper middle class Jewish Girl named Jill Rosen (Arquette), who is bound for Sarah Lawrence College, and a blue-collar Italian boy nicknamed the Sheik (Spano) in 1966 New Jersey, who aspires to follow in the path of the great Sinatra--the Chairman of the Board. The movie follows their high school experiences during their romance: Jill's success in high school acting productions, Jill's rebuffing Sheik's sexual advances, Sheik's one-night stand with a sexually active friend of Jill's, and a subsequent suicide attempt by that friend. Eventually, Sheik is expelled from school, and after an attempted robbery and subsequent pursuit by local... less