Please Baby Please is a 2022 American musical drama film directed by Amanda Kramer, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noel David Taylor.
Suze recounts their encounter with the Young Gents while Arthur is mocked by Baker and Les for his refusal to "be a man."
A conversation about gender performance and expectations ensues, where Suze reveals a desire to "be Stanley Kowalski" and expresses delight at the violence caused by the Young Gents, which ends when Arthur loudly proclaims his anxieties about manhood and how he feels judged equally by men and women.
Maureen expresses disgust for the appliance her husband buys for her and says that she wants a big, messy painting to take up a wall in her apartment.
Suze has the first of three fantasy sequences in the film, where she dances in Maureen's apartment while the Young Gents writhe around her in underwear and fetish gear.
Suze comes back to reality, watching Les recite poetry as Baker accompanies him on the drum.
Dickie is deeply moved by the poetry while Joanne laughs loudly at it, eventually causing Les to stop and ask them to leave.
Ida muses about the nature of womanhood, marriage, and female friendship while Suze describes what she'd do if she was a man.
They stop in front of a phone booth that is occupied by Billy in full drag, crying on a payphone and begging their lover to let them come back.
Suze and Arthur sit terrified in bed as the Young Gents whoop and holler outside of their window.
Suze returns to the apartment, and Lon takes her keys out of her hand as the Young Gents leave.
Suze rants to Arthur about Billy's insinuation, stopping when they come across the Young Gents stripping Joanne's fathers’ car.
Teddy warns them that the Young Gents are targeting them and he can't get their apartment keys back to them.
Suze offers to trade their keys for Maureen's, so the Young Gents can steal her stuff, and Teddy says he will try to get the swap; he affectionately says goodbye to Arthur.
The man reveals himself to be a cop who is about to bust the theater full of "criminal queers" and advises Suze to leave, which she does.
She yells at Ida, Baker, and Les to leave, and reminds Dickie that Lon killed Joanne.
Dickie punches Suze in the eye, saying that she has been asking for it; Teddy tells Arthur that they will be back to take care of Lon's body.
Suze sits in a chair while Arthur crawls to her and kisses her feet, mirroring the earlier scene in the kitchen.
In the feature audio commentary on the Blu-ray release of the film, Kramer confirms that Chris Eigeman is the voice of Arthur's father on the phone in a scene.
The official motion picture soundtrack was released on November 22, 2023[16] featuring the score composed and performed by Giulio Carmassi and Bryan Scary.
The website's consensus reads: "It'll be too campy for some, but Please Baby Please benefits from an artful aesthetic that's just as striking as Andrea Riseborough's performance.
"[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 65 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
She did, however, criticize the treatment of Sinclair's character Joanne, writing, "Kramer utilizes a degree of violence largely absent from the more cartoonish nature of the rest of the movie.
"[19] Please Baby Please won the 2022 Outfest Grand Jury Award for North American Narrative Feature[20] and was named one of the "10 Best Unsung LGBTQ Films of 2022" by GALECA.