Rating: PG13
Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 08/05/2003
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: MGM
Director
Rob Reiner's
The Sure Thing is essentially
It Happened One Night for the 1980s, but its lack of surprise in no way impedes its entertainment value.
John Cusack plays
Walter "Gib" Gibson, a self-involved college freshman who makes plans to head to California, there to touch base (and a few other things) with a "sure thing" played by
Nicollette Sheridan. Likewise planning a westward journey is coed
Alison Bradbury (
Daphne Zuniga), a control freak who has a wealthy, stuffy fiancé over there.
Gib and
Alison despise one another on sight -- so naturally, they are compelled to travel to California together. The fact that everyone in the audience knows precisely how this one will end up is inconsequential;
Cusack and
Zuniga deliver such engaging performances that we're pulling for them to wise up and discover one another from the very first scene. One of the best bits: the mismatched couple being bombarded with an ear-piercing rendition of
"The Age of Aquarius" by their dippy traveling companions.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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