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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: Legend Films
Salesrank: 24725
Released: July 1, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Sexy Rosanna Arquette sparkles, and Vincent Spano is brilliant in John Sayles' fresh and funny comedy about a pair of opposites who definitely attract! Set in the tumultuous '60s, and featuring a classic rock and roll soundtrack, Baby It's You crafts a vivid portrait of young love in a complex era. Also featuring a star turn by Robert Downey, Jr.
Description of Baby It's You:
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
Baby It's You Reviews:
Most devastating line in any movie 
2009-10-14 - Haven't seen this movie in a while, but I remember it well. It is the story of a relationship that outlives itself. Rosanna Arquette's Jill realizes it can never last, but cannot tear herself away from the idea of the relationship, if not the reality. She finally completes her "part" when she visits and sleeps with the Vincent Spano character. To him, this is proof they belong together. To her, it is the way to release any obligation she may have felt to him for his loyalty and devotion. When he tells her he loves her, the response is "I know." Although he doesn't grasp the significance of the response, when I saw it in the theater, it was almost as though I'd been punched in the stomach, it struck so close to home. Totally realistic view of young love between those of different backgrounds and futures.
Forgotten gem...
2008-11-19 - John Sayles' films are never what you think they're going to be, and "Baby, It's You" is no exception. Accurately capturing the messiness and immaturity of youth, Sayles still manages to involve you emotionally with his characters. He gets career best performances out of Spano and Arquette, and while his film is quite rooted in reality he still manages to pull off a first rate romantic ending. Hey, any film that features both Springsteen and Sinatra on its soundtrack must be worth a watch. More heartwarming than world changing, this one still has the ring of truth to it.
Great Movie 
2008-08-02 - Two words-Vincent Spano. I bought this movie so I could look at him again. Movies about teens and college kids today are usually silly, juvenile and sex oriented stupidity that most adults won't watch. This one is a little deeper...and cleaner.
One of the best movies I've ever seen
2007-05-25 - 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.
A coming of age that seems real
2006-12-21 - 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.
