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. The film is about a romance between an upper middle class Jewish girl named Jill Rosen , who is bound for Sarah Lawrence College, and a blue-collar Italian boy nicknamed the Sheik in late 1966 New Jersey, who aspires to follow in Frank Sinatra's footsteps. 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 police, Sheik goes to Miami, Florida, while Jill subsequently leaves for her first year at Sarah Lawrence in the fall of 1967.
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| Release date: | March 4, 1983 |
| Directed by: | John Sayles |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Producer: | Griffin Dunne, Amy Robinson |
| Editor: | Sonya Polonski |
| Cinematography: | Michael Ballhaus |
| Screenplay by: | John Sayles, Amy Robinson |
| Estimated budget: | $3,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |