Baby It's You (film)
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| Directed by | John Sayles |
| Written by | John Sayles (screenplay) Amy Robinson (story) |
| Starring | Rosanna Arquette Vincent Spano Joanna Merlin Jack Davidson |
| Release date(s) | March 4, 1983 |
| Running time | 105 min. |
| Language | English |
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Baby It's You was a 1983 film written and directed by John Sayles. It starred 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 was also close to his own high school experiences.
The film wasn't actually produced by the studio but actually financed on the basis of a distribution commitment. As a result, during post-production, Paramount executives began criticizing the downbeat ending of the film and the choice of classic pop music on the soundtrack. Sayles fought his way through the test screening process and was able to get his cut released but in retaliation the studio half-heartedly promoted it.
This was the first theatrical film ever to feature the music of Bruce Springsteen.
The film has had difficulty being released to DVD due to the expensive costs for music clearance and Paramount's continued disinterest.
[edit] Synopsis
Baby It's You is about a romance between a 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. Eventually, Sheik gets expelled from school and after a fight with Jill goes to Florida while she attends an all-girls college
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