Oklahoma Film Critics Circle

Phil Bacharach DVD Review: Baby It's You

Writer-director John Sayles has the ability to take the most cliché-riddled formula and — voila! — skirt cliché. Such is the redemptive power of full-blooded characterization and a keen understanding that people are nothing if not especially unpredictable. The overdue DVD release of Sayles’ third (and only studio) feature, 1983’s Baby Its You, presents a modest story of young love, but it nicely illustrates the filmmaker’s knack for wringing genuine complexity from what otherwise could be a tired exercise in genre.

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