Baby It's You (1983) | Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano

Baby It's You (1983) | Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano | A coming of age that seems real

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Baby It's You (1983)

	Baby It's You (1983) Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano Paramount, 2001 average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

John Sayles's third feature film was the exception that proved the rule about his need for total independence as a filmmaker. Sayles traded his final cut for studio funding, and the result was a movie that left him unhappy in its ultimate form. Nevertheless, Baby, It's You is full of dramatic elements and character nuances that are distinctively Saylesian (the director's screenplay is adapted from a novel by Amy Robinson), and the early-1960s New Jersey setting is clearly familiar territory for the Garden State's native son. Rosanna Arquette stars as Jill, a sweet, college-bound Jewish girl who develops an unlikely relationship with a macho Italian kid named "Sheik" Capodilupo (Vincent Spano). Sheik woos Jill, a girl from the good side of the tracks, with a certain determination, and while Sayles goes down this familiar path with a certain nostalgic glow, he has a larger story brewing beyond it--a story about relationships that never gel, about class assumptions, and about the painful, universal underpinnings of adolescence. --Tom Keogh

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Best Coming of Age Film

For me, one of the top ten films ever made. I feel that I know Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) better than most people I have known in real life. Jill is an A student. The streetwise boyfriend she discovers is not dumb. They are both very young. One wonders if either of them ever got it together. SO many endearing lines from Jill! Her college room "It's small but it's ugly." The funky gold star on the door. And when she gets drunk! I think maybe this film says when we have the least we have the most.

A coming of age that seems real

This is one of my favorite films and, along with Lone Star, my favorite film of John Sayles. Some of Sayles' films seem to me to be emotionally removed, but not here. He's committed, and it makes all the difference.

It features Rosanna Arquette in a terrific performance that put her on the map. Vincent Spano, the other lead, is good. He's an underrated actor, imo.

The film initially seems to be one of those early 60's nostalgia pics, but soon changes its tone. It is a coming of age film for both Arquette and Spano, primarily Arquette, but Spano's intertwined story, mostly seen from his relationship to Arquette, is also interesting.

Unlike most coming of age films which center of some one event in which the character's naive youthful idealist views receive some a dose of adult world reality, resulting in disillusion, this film shows the growth of Arquette from a high school senior through her first year of college. Like real lives that I'm familiar with, it's a bumpy road with both successes and failures and a lot of insecurities. Events such as sex are important, but they're fit in as one happening among others along that bumpy road to maturation, not some highlight, single defining moment of her life. And, as in other Sayles films, there is an open ended ending, not some neat Hollywood tie up where Arquette emerges having overcome All, with the implicit "and lived happily ever after."

The film is quite original this way. It's one I can relate to, in the general way, of my, and I think, most people's development. With Sayles emotional commitment it remains one of my favorite films. I never tire of it.

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One of the best movies I've ever seen

I absolutely love this movie. I saw it when it first came out and I fell in love with Vincent Spano. The chemistry between the two characters is believable as well as the storyline. I thought is clever how you never really new much about "The Sheik" but what you did know, made him likeable. I found myself routing for them to be together in the end. I highly recommend it. It definately was the sleeper of its time.

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Fun time waster

High school mismatched couple drift away after high school in 1967. She's a nice Jewish girl who went to collage. He's an Italian boy who goes to Florida to lip-synch to Sinatra (his "hero") songs in a club. But they still think of each other often.

It was okay. I like the 60s and Springsteen music. The plot and acting was just fair but not a bad film to waste time watching.

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