Word: reiner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST GLANCE at that wonderfully extended first glance over Nicollette Sheridan (the very titular Sure Thing). Rob Reiner's new movie looks like some hybrid of a late night blue movie on cable, an updated It Happened One Night with a junior prom live! soundtrack. But the putative story line--incompatible boy meets non-patible girl, girl rejects boy, girl and boy get thrown together on long trip, fall in love, break up, stumble back in love, kiss in moonlight, roll credits, sell cable rights, ad clicheum--stays mercifully irrelevant in what soon becomes a veritable impros comedy feast coated...
Rather than alternating between sexual allusions and sexual illusions in the style of the generic teen flick. Reiner uses the cross country trip scenario as a chance to wink, gently but snidely, at the void that is Middle American culture In smaller but still delightful doses. Reiner offers the same subtle satire that made This is Spinal Tap! the best comedy of last year...
...this flick is simply too much fun to criticize the Styrofoam characters with any relish. Those who appear in the credits with titles like "Girl in Photo." "Frat Guy," "Pick-up Driver," or "Bus Station Bum" are not characters: they are nothing more than props for Reiner's comedic mind, no realer than a red nose or floppy feet...
...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...
...Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner saw nothing wrong with the public support for a victim of crime who fights back. "To live today in urban America means that you are severely at risk and essentially helpless to deal with the problem of crime. When someone comes along to make you feel you are not helpless, then everyone collectively throws their hats...