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Just what then can our man Gib see in Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga), whose appointment book schedules all but the fluttering of her long lashes, who sees college as an ivy-adorned clearinghouse to law school. Who really cares if she really is a two-time delegate to the model U.N. in New York City...
This aspiring Perine Mason and the lustful philosopher get thrown together by the two great college mixers, the introductory writing class and the vacation road trip. In first year writing class. Alison discovers that her writing is as dry as Gib's sex life, while Gib realizes that, Faulkner excepted, writing requires something resembling sentences Their teacher. Professor Traub (Viveca Lindfors), runs her writing class like a laboratory in life, passing by the usual that which distinction for such advice as "Talk to people whose clothes are not color coordinated Make love in a hammock...
Baby yuppies go on the road: the week's oddest cross-pollination of genres. In this teenpic travelogue, Gib (John Cusack) and Alison (Daphne Zuniga) are only college freshmen, and already they're lost in America. Gib, a quick, pleasant non-hunk, attends an Eastern school, but someone has lined up a "sure thing" for him in California. It is the film's unlikely premise that this bundle of lissome lubriciousness (Nicollette Sheridan), whom Gib has never met, is his for the asking; he need only go west to strike gold. He will do so in the reluctant company...
...late addition in the acne rash of teen stories, The Sure Thing's script (by Steven L. Bloom and Jonathan Roberts) must qualify as pretty "intellectual and stuff." Alison might fret about maintaining her grade- point average, and Gib may actually fall for her because "she happens to be an excellent judge of quality shirtwear." Welcome to the decade of lowered expectations, which Rob Reiner's meandering direction fully satisfies. The Sure Thing aims not to blaze trails but to avoid the gross failings of its predecessors. All right, then. In teenpix a shrug is better than a shudder...
Other executive officers include Bagger Barry Pearlstein '86, Check Casher Chris Carroll '86, Assistant Store Manager Randi Cohen '86, Floor Manager Hal Burstein '86, and Pricer Alison Caplan...