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| Embassy Pictures | Release Date: March 1, 1985 |
Starring:
Daphne Zuniga, John Cusack
Summary:
A college student (John Cusack) plans a cross-country trip to get laid, but ends up traveling with a young woman (Daphne Zuniga). They hate each other, so naturally...
The comedy in The Sure Thing is genial and unforced. Most of it develops organically out of the characters and their situations. It doesn't grate and it doesn't interfere with the evolution of the central relationship, and it's effective enough to provoke the occasional laugh or smile.
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The Sure Thing is queasily old-fashioned, a raunchy road trip without the raunch that nonetheless trades on sex-comedy stereotypes: party animals in Hawaiian shirts, tea-sipping no-fun-niks in neutral-colored sweaters, and a compliant blonde sex doll that is, in fact, a sure thing. The film takes baby steps to something better.
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ROB REINER'S debut as a feature film director with the mock
"rockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap was as invigorating as his second film,
The Sure Thing, is depressing: not since Michael Cimino followed The Deer
Hunter with Heaven's Gate has there been such a dramatic comedown. [1 Mar 1985]
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