Baby It's You

Baby It's You (1983)

  • 94% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 61% of users liked it
    (384 ratings)

In the early 1960s, two very different New Jersey high schoolers share their first love in this bittersweet romantic drama, an early feature by writer/director John Sayles. Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is a sweet, overachieving Jewish girl heading for college to become an actor; "Sheik"… More

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Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Feb 4, 1983 Wide
Paramount Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • , Time Out

    Arquette and Spano hit exactly the right note.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    A labor of love for everyone involved.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    As a filmmaker, Sayles still seems more likable than incisive or original, but it's a likability with a certain brilliance.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    Rosanna Arquette has a way about her.

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    A patchy romance but tough-minded and full of vividly smudged emotions

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  • Walter M


    Written and directed by John Sayles, "Baby It's You" is on the surface a genuinely heartfelt romance. Like a lot of Sayles' other movies(this is his only studio movie to date), it also works on a political level as it relates to perceptions and class. It is… More

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