Word: cusack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...articles with her similarly situated boy friend, the pair end up hitching their way to California together, a la It Happened One Night. Somewhere between playing a madman psychotic to scare a lecherous truck driver off of Alison and trying to identify the three categories of junk food. John Cusack manages to make the film into a showcase for his improvisational comedy talent...
...SEXINESS of its opening and its Calvin jeans ad campaign. The Sure Thing is not a very sexy film. Even in the dream seduction sequences between Gib and the his bikini beach babe, the girl just asks for "More" and Cusack dreamily says "later, later, later" It doesn't sound like love; it doesn't look like sex (of an R-rating quality); and it comes across, in the end, like something of a long, hard to film masturbatory sequence. Good enough. Eroticism is as distant from Cusack's physical repertoire as genuine Voltaire-level perception is from his musings...
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...
...three most famous set pieces-Cyrano's duel while composing a poem, the balcony scene in which the shy cavalier ventriloquizes his love for Roxane (Sinead Cusack) through the voice of his friend Christian (Tom Mannion), and Cyrano's lingering death-Hands does go full throttle. So does the star, Derek Jacobi, in the rising-geyser cadences that just about every serious English actor of the past 20 years has borrowed from Laurence Olivier. In his best roles Jacobi finds heroism in gray ordinariness: the stammering honesty of Claudius in TV's I, Claudius, the grace...
...about every British playwright of manners from Congreve to Coward and beyond. While Hero and Claudio played out their fustian collision of chivalry and jealousy at center court, Beatrice and Benedick stood on the sidelines, exchanged waspish badinage and transformed supporting roles into star turns. This time around, Sinead Cusack (who need no longer be known only as Mrs. Jeremy Irons) makes Beatrice every inch the lady of hide-pendent mind. Derek Jacobi's Benedick begins abubble with adolescent spirits, sighing and whinnying like a high school boy who won't admit that he is in love with...