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Summary: Uber-cool
Review: I just put down a few of my thoughts about "Say Anything," another John Cusack classic, and I thought I'd say my piece about this one as well... First of all, as Austin Powers may have said once or twice in his life, my overall reaction to this film could perhaps most concisely be expressed via the simple phrase, "yeah baby." This movie is fun, funny, romantic as all get out, very intelligent, and packed with lines you will never forget. John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga's characters are the ultimate odd couple. I once (seriously) used their two characters in an academic setting, as examples to illustrate the opposing sides of various parts of the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory. He is freewheeling, she is straitlaced. He lives his life by making things up as he goes along, she plans everything out in excruciating detail. It's like watching a photographic negative of "Dharma and Greg." They learn from each other over the course of the movie, and both end up doing some real maturing, as well as reaching more of a happy medium, personality-wise... For the record, watch for the scene (early in the film) where John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga are up on the roof of a building, looking at the stars. The constellations they are talking about are real -- find a "Peterson's Guide to the Night Sky" and look up Perseus, Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Draco, and Cepheus. They're really up there, they are very easy to find in the northern hemisphere, and it's one of the coolest group of mythologically interconnected constellations in the heavens. Anyway, this movie is fantastic. It's so worth it. Please see it, if you want to have fun, and also if anyone has ever, at any point in your life, told you you need to do some growing up. Two thumbs up.
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Summary: A nice surprise!
Review: To think that John Cusack and Anthony Edwards were in a movie together and I never knew about it! This is a great story about people growing up, growing together, growing apart, and learning to cut back. It's funny; it's good for guys & gals; and Anthony Edwards, at one point, sports really interesting 80's attire.
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Summary: Classic 80s comedy
Review: Still funny after all these years!!!
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Summary: To be seen with your heart
Review: "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?" Bob Dylan asked in the 60's. There are many answers for this question, one of them is even provided in that song and anybody knows it. This movie brings another answer and it is delightly romantic and I loved it! The best in this movie - in my opinion - is its final part: an inspired sequence of enlightened statements gracefully read in a monolog tone. This movie shows the changing every human being should undergo in Life to truly become a Human Being in its broader sense. To love is to care not only about the one we love - this is too egotistic. It is much more: it is to care about everyone else when you truly love someone. And Gib understood that when faced with his Sure Thing. And because of that his answer was no... Beautiful movie!
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Summary: Subtle Romance Comedy
Review: By far one of Rob Reiner's best. If you like the Princess Bride, you'll definitely like this. One of the better teen romance movies out there, this one is a classic. John Cusack is great in his usual style, just slightly offbeat. It's also interesting to see a young Anthony Edwards and Tim Robbins before they got their big breaks. Although very light as comedies go, and most predictable, it is one of the great romance movies.
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Summary: My favorite romantic comedy
Review: I usually don't like romantic movies. I mean let's face it they are usually predictable and the two stars have no chemistry. However, when done right a romantic comedy can work. In The Sure Thing it works. John Cusack stars as Walter Gibson a freshman at a small northeastern college. He has been down on his luck in the woman department. He meets a girl, Alison in his English class. They have a Pseudo-date and it ends badly. Walter decides to take a cross-country road trip to meet with his friend Lance (played by ER's Anthony Edwards when he still had hair.) Lance assures of a sure thing upon his arrival. He of course through some unfortunate luck and show tunes is stuck with Alison on the road trip. What I liked was the honesty of this movie. Cusak's character learns about women, relationships and the actual meaning of the word love by being stuck with Alison. She learns to loosen up, and accept people for what they are. In every successful relationship that I have had, that is what happens. I learn from her and she learns from me. Yes, the end is a little predictable and it is a little dated, but the story is funny and pretty dead on.
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Summary: this movie rocks
Review: If you love 80's movies, you've gotta see this one. John Cusack, obviously the king of teen-angst films, is totally at his best in this super-cute he-said, she-said flick.
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Summary: Another Great Film by CUSACK!
Review: John Cusack is my favorite actor, and have yet to see a bad film he has made. He's spending his vacation travelling to get hooked up with a girl that is the "sure thing". He spends the journey with another girl that is anything but a sure thing. A fun college film with all the charm and whit that Cusack has to offer. I hope others will enjoy this video as much as I did. One of his many great films.
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Summary: The Sure Thing - A Journey for life
Review: I cannot remember a film that I have watched more times than S.T and yet it keeps getting better. The film focuses on a young, brash but naive school pupil who is losing his life long buddy to pursue a separate college course. (Anthony Edwards of E.R & TopGun hits) Having had a particularly "dry season" so far as the opposite sex is concerned, Gib, (played by Cusack) sets out to attract the attention of a subdued and prim fellow student. Early efforts prove largely unsuccessful until a long cross-state journey finally brings the two together. The Sure Thing gets its name from a description of Cusack's dream girl, who is waiting to meet him, (hence the journey) at a summer reunion party with his old chum, where sex is a promise. Without spoiling the ending, Cusack finds himself in the position he has dreamed of, (no pun intended) only to question his moralities. This is a hugely satisfying road movie with smart one liners and a youthful cast pouting and revelling through Reiner's dialogue. A classic teen romp - one for all the family and who could forget those show tunes when embarking on ones next car journey? A Fantastic and mainly overlooked jewel. MK
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Summary: Cusack Is Brilliant
Review: John Cusack starred in a number of romantic comedies in the 80's, including Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, Hot Pursuit, and others. What all of these movies had in common was a playfulness and good-natured humor in a combination that's almost irresistable. In The Sure Thing, Cusack and Daphne Zuniga are thrown in together in a cross-country road trip to California, and as you'd suspect, they couldn't be less alike. Zuniga's nerdy bookworm (though appropriately gorgeous) is the perfect foil to Cusack's beer-swilling party boy. Though both are off to California to see other people, a hesitant romance buds, and all the trappings of an odd coupling create the comedy. This film could easily have become another teenie bopper film quickly forgotten, but sweet, heartfelt and funny performances by Zuniga and Cusack, characteristically excellent direction by Reiner, and an excellent script combine to make this one a classic.
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