Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin

In 1966 New Jersey, Jill Rosen, a frustrated high schooler, is intrigued by an enigmatic new student known only as the Sheik. Sheik is an Italian whose primary interests are his car, Frank Sinatra, an...( read more  read more... )d Jill. At first she is taken aback by his forwardness, but they soon develop a relationship, much to the chagrin of their parents. Sheik gets expelled from school, and Jill is accepted at an all-girls college. After a fight, Sheik goes to Florida to work in a club lip-synching Sinatra songs. Sheik becomes dissatisfied with his Florida lifestyle and goes back to New Jersey to try to win Jill over.

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R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: John Sayles

Release Date: February 4, 1983

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DVD Release Date: October 7, 2003

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  • June 19, 2009
    I love Rosanna Arquette and this is one of her earliest films. It's a coming of age story about a teenage girl in the 1960s from a white collar family who falls for "the Shiek" a boy from the wrong side of the tracks...same old story but really done nicely in this old film. I en...( read more)joy it every time I see it as well as the great retro soundtrack.
  • May 2, 2009
    Likeably movie and I thought Vincent Spano was cute.
  • August 13, 2008
    If it's John Sayles.... I'm in.

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