Director John Sayles (1950)

Written and directed by John Sayles, Baby It’s You (1983) is a romantic comedy drama set in 1966 New Jersey. Jill Rosen, an upper-middle-class Jewish girl headed for Sarah Lawrence College, enters into a relationship with the Sheik, a blue-collar Italian boy with dreams of becoming the next Frank Sinatra. While Jill excels in high school acting productions, the Sheik has a one-night stand with Jody, one of Jill’s close friends. However, their budding romance is cut short when the Sheik is expelled from school and flees to Miami, Florida after being involved in an attempted robbery. In the fall of 1967, Jill ...