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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 8563
Released: August 5, 2003 |
| Our Price: $2.78 |
| Used Price: $2.14 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
John Cusack (Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity), Daphne Zuniga (Spaceballs) and Nicollette Sheridan ("Desperate Housewives") star in this charming tale of true love that's at once "intelligent, fun, a bit devilish [and] delightful, frisky and perceptively funny" (The Hollywood Reporter)! College freshman Walter "Gib" Gibson (Cusack) has a "sure thing" goinga date with a very hot and very sex-craved blonde (Sheridan) across the country in LA. Crossed by fateand the ride-share bulletin boardGib makes the trip with a studious and abrasive coed (Zuniga). But as they mount every obstacle from show tune-singing simpletons and bad weather to leering truck drivers and worse luck, their temperaments change and Gib realizes that the only sure thing isthat losing the real thing would be the worst thing of all!
Description of The Sure Thing:
Two mismatched college students (John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga) find themselves trapped together during a cross-country road trip, trying to make it home for the holidays. She can't stand him, and he just wants to get to L.A., where a sexy "sure thing" is waiting to greet him with open arms. It's not hard to predict where this sweetly old-fashioned romantic comedy is going to end up, but along the way there are many pleasures to be had. Director Rob Reiner, in his second feature (after This Is Spinal Tap), has a nice eye for the kitschy flotsam found along the American highway, and his identification with the college kids doesn't condescend to them one bit. The movie helped make a star of John Cusack, who gives a delightfully spritzy performance--kind of a precursor to his similarly energetic, likable turn in Say Anything. Given the usual crass tenor of Hollywood college movies, The Sure Thing is something to treasure. --Robert Horton
The Sure Thing Reviews:
Romantic teenage comedy - with an '80s feel 
2008-10-30 - John Cusack plays a university fresher lost in school work and failing hopelessly in romance too.
It is simple, funny and charming, a film that can be watched time and again.
I loved it. John Cusack is really great 
2008-10-07 - I love this movie that was really great. John Cusack is an artistic icon I love him. He is really amazing. I love his movies. They are really great.
sure thing
2008-09-15 - The tape arrived packaged and in good condition. The seller lived up to promises made in quality of product and shipping time. I am fully satisfied.
Pretty good
2008-03-27 - I was looking for another Say Anything because I loved John Cusack in that movie. This was not as good as that but I still liked the story and the chemistry between him and the girl he liked. I am glad I bought it. Thank goodness it was not a lame comedy like Better off Dead which sucked and One Crazy Summer which was one of the worst movies I have seen!
Great fun movie.
2008-01-04 - I loved this movie when it first came out and still enjoyed watching it the second time around. What male could ever forget Nicolette in that white bikini?
Just a good fun movie with one of my favorite scenes ever with Cusack getting his girlfriend out of the truck.
This one is worth seeing.
