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Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This wonderful movie, saddled by an awful title and a really bad first two minutes, played only one screen in Washington DC --- but my attention was called to it by critic Arch Campbell. Thank you, Arch.Within five minutes the audience will be taken in to a love story, intensely heartfelt, between a Jewish A+ student and a smooth Italian greaser. This is the kind of love story which has slim chance of a happy outcome but slimmer chance that anything can dowse either the flame or the memory. Although technically a comedy, the serious under-theme is worthy of the great classics of European cinema; enhanced by true skill in framing the right scenes.Many films are aimed at persons who view LOVE as pretty similar to attraction to a rented car; i.e. love what you've got, forget about what you ain't. This film isn't for them. If you've felt love's pain, see this one.

'Baby, It's You' is not ideal material for anyone, let alone an actress like Roseanna Arquette, who can do good comedy (and light romantic comedy) when given the opportunity. This is the story of a simple high school girl (Arquette) who starts dating a quasi-James Dean type (Vincent Spano as the "Shiek") during the early 60s. Neither characters are very interesting, especially the Shiek who seems all too arrogant and altogether strange, anyways to enjoy any sort of romance that forms between the two. The story takes us from high school, when the couple meet and date and have some sort of wavering relationship (made entirely difficult by a control-freak like Shiek), and then on into the post-high school years where Jill Rosen (Arquette) is either unhappy or uncomfortable at her college and the Shiek is a lip-synching performer in Miami night clubs singing to an enthused crowd of senior citizens.The movie is hardly funny, and only moderately entertaining. There is little or no story, and with the characters being so wishy-washy (I hate that term), there's really nothing to hold your interest. Plus, the Shiek just comes off like such a jerk, it's a wonder why a girl like Jill Rosen would even waste her time with him. Even if sappy 80s romance comedies are what you might be in the mood for, this is not one that I'd recommend watching.

Unlike other viewers, I didn't really connect with this on any major level. And I don't think their longing for each other was anything more than adolescent infatuation (hey, we've all been there!), made all the more desperate by separation anxiety. A couple of 18-year-olds struggling to find themselves in the world. OK as a romantic comedy drama, but no great shakes. Performances were all solid. Interesting to see Matthew Modine pop up briefly as the college boyfriend. And it looked great -- nice and moody -- seemed like something out of the 1960s. One thing bothered me: The use of Bruce Springsteen songs from the 1970s in a movie that was to have taken place in 1967 (not 1965, as another reviewer said -- the signs at Rosanna Arquette's prom clearly said, "Class of 1967"). Anyway, those Springsteen songs from the soundtrack wouldn't have been out yet. But I guess it was done to add a "Jersey feel" to the movie.

I echo the comments of the other review posted here. The movie seems very uneven, and that adds to its lure. The interaction of Spano and Arquette seems all at once real and surreal. Any movie which makes me think of it into the next day, must have significant substance. It is rare to consider "uneven" a positive quality to a movie, but somehow this one pulls it off..