Set in the ‘60s, it tells the hopeful and sober story of an unlikely romance between middle-class, college-bound Jewish high school senior Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) and a working class, Sinatra-loving, Italian-American kid known as The Sheik (Vincent Spano). The existence of the movie itself is unlikely too - John ran into a lot of push-back on his creative decisions from the studio: “It escaped, rather than was released”, he quipped.
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