John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga spend their time together hitchhiking across country to California in director Rob Reiner's romantic, teen comedy "The Sure Thing," a quasi-"It Happened One Night." Walter 'Gib' Gibson (John Cusack of "Sixteen Candles") and his best friend Lance (Anthony Edwards of "Top Gun") graduate from high school and head off to opposite ends of the nation to attend college. Eventually, Lance sets Walter up with a hot babe (Nicollette Sheridan) but he has no means of transportation. At the same time, Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga) needs a ride to California during the Christmas break to visit her bespectacled boyfriend Jason (Boyd Gaines) who is in for a surprise. Inevitably, the two wind up together in the same car, a Volkswagon station wagon driven by Gary Cooper (Tim Robbins) and his girlfriend. Our hero and heroine don't last long with Gary and his girlfriend after she bares her breasts during the ride and flaunts them to another vehicle whose occupants had mooned them. After the cops cite Gary for her promiscuous behavior, he leaves Gib and the girl on the roadside and they have to thumb a ride to get to the land of sun and fun. Harmless fun from start to finish with nothing heavy in between and dreamy Nicollette Sheridan as the eponymous babe in her cinematic debut, "The Sure Thing" qualifies as a sure thing. Nobody—at least guys—will forget Nicollette's first scene when she sprawls out on the beach and oils up her lithe body as the waves crash behind her. According to Reiner, he was so nervous that he didn't show up for this scene and let his director of photography lense it. Lots of hit music tunes enliven this sweet little comedy that Rob Reiner directs. For the record, Henry Wrinkler produced "The Sure Thing."
Review of The Sure Thing
