Film Forum

U.S., 1983
Written and Directed by John Sayles
Starring Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Matthew Modine
Produced by Amy Robinson and Griffin Dunne
Story by Amy Robinson
Aprox. 105. min.

“A random collision in the hallway of a Trenton, New Jersey, high school leads to a star-crossed romance between a garbageman’s son and a doctor’s daughter. Jill (Rosanna Arquette) and Sheik (Vincent Spano) are the stuff of late-teen melodrama: a fizzy Shirelles song that segues into a solid Bruce Springsteen epic. Jill, bright and pretty, a natural for most-likely-to-succeed, has a future at one of the Seven Sisters. Sheik, a flashy dresser and a misfit, a shoo-in for most-likely-to-get-expelled, has a future in a Miami Beach dive. But there’s no denying the chemistry between them.” – Vanity Fair

Reviews

“Rosanna Arquette has a way about her... she is able to appear on screen with such an unaffected natural quality that I feel as if I’m looking past the script and direction and actually experiencing the life of her character... she carries the movie from beginning to end.”
 – Roger Ebert

“Arquette and Spano hit exactly the right note.”
– Time Out