UPDATE - This Wednesday's BABY IT'S YOU screening will be presented in its fully restored 4K format!

July 7, 2025

This just in... We are EXTREMELY pleased and excited to announce that permission has been granted for this Wednesday's special Newtown Theatre "Movie Club" screening of John Sayles' 1983 film Baby It's You (the first major film to license Bruce Springsteen's music for its soundtrack) to be presented on the big screen in its newly and beautifully restored 4K edition. If you'll be in the Newtown, PA area this Wednesday, you do NOT want to miss this special opportunity to see this fully restored version of the film in a rare theatrical screening. Read below for more information on the film and how to get your tickets. Special thanks to Fun City Editions for allowing us to present its 4K restoration of Baby It's You the way it originally was meant to be seen... on the big screen! Click here to purchase the Fun City Editions Blu-ray of the 4K restoration, featuring a new, exclusive essay by film scholar and Letters To You contributor Caroline Madden, who'll be presenting Wednesday night's special screening with her fellow Letters To You contributors, filmmaker Joe Amodei and editor/publisher Shawn Poole.

Letters To You contributor and filmmaker Joe Amodei recently launched a monthly "Movie Club" screening/discussion series in partnership with The Newtown Theatre in Newtown, PA. Next month's screening will be writer/director John Sayles' great 1983 film, the nostalgic teen-romance drama Baby It's You, which also was the first major film to license Bruce Springsteen's music for its soundtrack. The Asbury Park, NJ of yore is portrayed in the film, as well, in a sequence where the main characters visit the legendary town and even spend some time at the now-demolished Palace Amusements building, which still stood and was in operation when Baby It's You was filmed. About a year-and-a-half after the film's release, Sayles would begin working with Springsteen on the filming of several of his music-videos. (See the vintage image below.)

from the World Tour 1984-85 tourbook - shots of filmmaker John Sayles directing the "Glory Days" music-video - Sayles also directed the music-videos for "Born in the U.S.A." and "I'm On Fire."

All Letters To You readers who'll be in or near Newtown, PA are invited to attend this special event this Wednesday, July 9, beginning at 7:30 p.m. After screening the film, Joe will be joined by Letters To You contributing writer and film-scholar Caroline Madden, as well as editor/publisher Shawn Poole, for an audience discussion/Q-and-A about the film and its enduring significance.

We hope that you can join us for this special evening. General-admission tickets are only $12 each, and your ticket-purchases will help to support the continued restoration and maintenance of the historic Newtown Theatre. Incidentally, all members of The Newtown Theatre get free admission to Baby It's You, as well as free admission to all other "Movie Club" screenings, along with other membership benefits. Click here for information on how to become a member of The Newtown Theatre.

Click here for more information on the Baby It's You screening, and to purchase tickets as a non-member of The Newtown Theatre. See you this Wednesday!