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    Baby, It’s You! (1983)

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    An absorbing, highly charged, teenage romance by writer-director John Sayles. The emotional story of star-crossed young lovers stumbles over occasional holes in the plot, yet the material is consistently compelling.

    Trenton High School, New Jersey circa 1967 is the setting. Upper-middle-class Jewish princess Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) and brilliantined Italian ruffian Albert “Sheik” Capadilupo (Vincent Spano) comprise the mismatched young couple.

    babyitsyou_000She lies in her bedroom daydreaming to Dusty Springfield’s You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me and he sweeps into the cafeteria to Bruce Springsteen’s It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City. Strangers in the Night unites them.

    After graduation (her) and a bungled greaser robbery (him), she heads out to college to study theatre (and the counterculture) and he takes up lip-synching to Sinatra records at a Miami nightclub (where he is also washing dishes).

    Their reunion is bittersweet, brutal and defiantly hopeful.

    Above all, the film works as a dazzling showcase for some hip performances by talented newcomers. Arquette displays much realism as the bright Jewish physician’s daughter who is courted by the brash working-class youth, played by Spano.

    Matthew Modine makes his film debut and there’s an early appearance by Robert Downey Jr.

    Jill Rosen
    Rosanna Arquette
    Albert “Sheik” Capadilupo
    Vincent Spano
    Mrs Rosen
    Joanna Merlin
    Dr Rosen
    Jack Davidson
    Mr Capadilupo
    Nick Ferrari
    Mrs Capadilupo
    Dolores Messina
    Miss Vernon
    Leora Dana
    Mr Ripeppi
    William Joseph Raymond
    Mr McManus
    Sam McMurray
    Jody
    Liane Curtis
    Beth
    Claudia Sherman
    Debra
    Marta Kober
    Stewart
    Robert Downey Jr
    Steve
    Matthew Modine

    Director
    John Sayles

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