Fact1: upper-middle-class Jewish girl named Jill Rosen is bound for Sarah Lawrence College, Fact2: movie follows high school experiences during romance, Fact3: Jill 's success in high school acting Jill 's rebuffing of Sheik 's sexual advances Sheik 's one-night stand with sexually active friend of Jill 's and subsequent suicide attempt by friend, Fact4: Sheik after attempted robbery and subsequent pursuit by goes to Miami local police, Fact5: Jill has not met with acting or social success
Output: The film, set in 1966 New Jersey, is about a romance between an uppermiddleclass Jewish girl named Jill Rosen Arquette, who is bound for Sarah Lawrence College, and a bluecollar Italian boy nicknamed the Sheik Spano, who aspires to follow in Frank Sinatras footsteps. The movie follows their high school experiences during their romance: Jills success in high school acting productions, Jills rebuffing of Sheiks sexual advances, Sheiks onenight stand with a sexually active friend of Jills and a subsequent suicide attempt by that friend. Eventually, Sheik is expelled from school, and after an attempted robbery and subsequent pursuit by local police, Sheik goes to Miami, Florida, while Jill subsequently leaves for her first year at Sarah Lawrence in the fall of 1967. At one point in her first year, Jill visits Sheik in Florida, and although she sees clearly how little he has going for him he has found work in a nightclub washing dishes and, on weekends, lipsynching to Frank Sinatra recordings, she has sex with him. In the moments before they undress, their conversation turns to his odd nickname, which he had not explained to Jill when they dated in high school. Sheik is a brand of condoms, he explainslike Trojans. Some time after Jill returns to college, Sheik arrives at work to find that he has been unceremoniously replaced by a real singer, albeit one with no great talent. This humiliation makes Sheik selfaware of his almost nonexistent opportunities for career success in any endeavor, and in response, he steals a car and makes the long drive from Miami to New York, propelled by the romantic notion of reuniting with Jill. Jills college experience has not been easy or happy: she has not met with the acting or social success she had in high school. Yet, the act of consummating her desire for Sheik has led her to realize that she does not love him, for having had sex with him has moved her past the point of romantic and sexual wonder, and left her seeing that they inhabit different social worlds. When Sheik arrives at Sarah Lawrence and does not find Jill, he violently trashes her room and waits for her return. When she does and he declares his love for her, she tells him that she does not love him. Sheik briefly resists her response and then, in a moment of quiet dignity, accepts it. Jill then reaches out to Sheik, and asks him as a favorfor them both, in a senseif he will take her to a college dance, for which she has otherwise been unable to find a date. The movie ends with this dance, and this final scene also registers the quick change of pace in popular culture in the mid1960s. In the midst of the dance, either Jill or Sheik the film does not identify which one requests that the band, incongruously, perform Strangers in the Night, the Sinatra hit that had been a key part of their high school romance. The film ends with them looking into each others eyes and slowdancing.