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The Sure Thing
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures complement each other. Now they need to realize what they've already found before it's too late.
1985 · Directed by Rob Reiner · 95 min · Comedy · Romance · 33 frames
Tagline
A sure thing comes once in a lifetime... but the real thing lasts forever.
Crew
- Written by: Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom
- Cinematography: Robert Elswit
- Edited by: Robert Leighton
- Music: Tom Scott
- Production design: Lilly Kilvert
- Produced by: Roger Birnbaum
Cast
- John Cusack as Walter "Gib" Gibson
- Daphne Zuniga as Alison Bradbury
- Anthony Edwards as Lance
- Boyd Gaines as Jason
- Tim Robbins as Gary Cooper
- Lisa Jane Persky as Mary Ann Webster
- Viveca Lindfors as Professor Taub
- Nicollette Sheridan as The Sure Thing
- Marcia Christie as Julie
- Robert Anthony Marcucci as Bobby
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Monument Pictures, Embassy Films Associates, Embassy Pictures
- Budget: $4,500,000
- Box office: $18,135,531
- Themes: california, college, road trip, swimming pool, coming of age, cross country, hitchhiking, opposites attract
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