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...knew Gibs in high school, or imagined we did. Gib, of course wants it--going as far as traveling from the Ivy League to California to get it--but Gib is as much the aspiring philosopher as the horny teenager, a kind of Voltaire with a two hour-long hormone overdose. Let other high school chums compare the relative merits of different Ray-Ban tints or Coppertone 6 versus Coppertone 4, but Gib still savors the meaning in life "Who invented liquid soap and why?" No talk of etching or astrological signs in his romantic approaches; witness his favorite pickup...
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...
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...
Then there is the matter of vocabulary Shakespeare's Falstaff says. "I am melancholy as a gib cat or a lugg'd bear." But Coe's Falstaff changes this to "castrated cat" (and no bear), thus running the punchy parade of six monosyllables. Coe has also seen fit to supplant wenches with daughters Nit-picking, you say? Then how about Coe's alteration of one of the most famous lines in all Shakespeare? When Prince Hal comes upon the supposedly dead Falstaff, he says. "I could have better spar'd a better man" And Coe has substituted the word lost...