The Sure Thing

The Sure Thing

  • Director: Rob Reiner
  • Writer: Steve Bloom,Jonathan Roberts
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: March 1, 1985
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Gnadenlos verliebt
  • A romantic comedy film directed by American director Rob Reiner in 1985. The film tells a couple of college students who are enemies on weekdays. At the moment of winter vacation, they travel to California to meet their male and female friends at the same time. Without being beautiful, various accidents occurred during the journey, but it was these accidents that caused a different love affair between them.

    Details

    • Release date March 1, 1985
    • Filming locations Knotty Pine Motel - 2160 North Wilson Way, Stockton, California, USA
    • Production companies Embassy Pictures, Monument Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $4,500,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $18,135,531

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $3,124,782

    Gross worldwide

    $18,135,531

    Movie reviews

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    • By Myrna 2022-10-03 19:27:16

      Fun movie

      Sentimental and somewhat pretentious movie, but it does not hinder its beauty.

      The sentiment of the 1980s is always like this for people today, not enough romance, not enough vigor, not enough depth, not enough absurdity, not enough madness, too vulgar, obviously, it's going to be a part of it. The name of literature and art still carries such a hint of preaching, which is really intolerable.

      But then again, even though it's a little quarrel and the enemy doesn't fight the...

    • By Kelli 2022-10-03 18:03:37

      About Cassiopeia

      As a fan of John Cusack, I have watched 17 of his movies so far. I can't say I like every one, but there are always one or two that always evoke feelings in my heart. Of course, what is indispensable is his 2001 "Serendipity", the Chinese translation is destined for fate, and of course there is another name that is even more Qiong Yao, which is a soft spot. And the Chinese translation of "The Sure Thing"—Sure Thing, seems funny, but it has a very appropriate generalization of the movie. A pair...

    • By Holden 2022-10-03 17:30:21

      Enemy love

      In this play, the male protagonist meets the kind of woman that all men like, with golden hair, slender figure, and delicate face. And the heroine also meets the future success person who she thinks all girls like. However, when they met each other, they discovered the total shortcomings of the other party, but at the same time they also discovered that they possessed traits that they had never had before. So attracted to each other, so special and beautiful. Couples may not care about being...

    User comments

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    • By Melisa 2023-09-15 05:35:19

      It’s pretty good to the middle stage, a young and tender couple, and the immature acting of the male and female protagonist looks very natural on the contrary, but the ending is too sloppy. I like the part where the two of them hitchhike the most at the beginning, it’s funny~ Tim Robins's role is actually called Gary...

    • By Cleveland 2023-09-12 13:21:21

      3.5 Sickness is healed with pure...

    • By Dan 2023-08-30 23:22:12

      Young John Cusack was too young to pinch...

    • By Johnny 2023-08-20 14:27:43

      The American youth films of the 1980s and 1990s have become a beautiful landscape endowed with nostalgic texture by time....

    • By Stanford 2023-08-18 15:33:59

      As a movie, it is interesting but not clever. But the whole movie is really youthful. Youth does not need to be clever anyway, fun is...

    Movie quotes

    • Alison: You didn't sleep with her?

      Gib: Still seeing Jason?

      Alison: Broke up.

      Gib: That's too bad.

      Alison: You didn't sleep with her.

      Gib: Wasn't my type.

    • Walter (Gib) Gibson: [suddenly appearing from hiding in the back of the pick-up and hopping into the passenger seat] Thanks for the ride. I've been out here all day. I'm not interrupting anything am I?

      Pick-Up Driver: [holding Alison] Me and the wife just having a little squabble, OK.

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: Oh. It's not easy getting rides. Do you know what I mean? I mean most people are real afraid to pick up hitchhikers. I mean you never know who you might pick up. I mean I could be some crazed slime ball. I mean a real deranged, violent psycho. You know what I mean? I mean a guy who would rip out your heart and eat it

      [singing]

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: just for pleasure.

      [maniacally]

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: I'm talking about a total maniac! You know what I mean?

      [beat]

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

      Pick-Up Driver: [unsettled] Yeah...

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: [looks around nervously] Why aren't we moving?

      [creepily]

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: Don't you want to give me a ride?

      Pick-Up Driver: I'm only goin' about another mile.

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: [flipping out] Then what the hell did you pick me up for? You think I got nothing better to do with my life then to sit here and pass the time with you,

      [leans over inches away from his face]

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: SHIT BRAAAIN!

      [sits back]

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: I don't think I want this ride after all.

      [gets out, then comes back]

      Walter (Gib) Gibson: And I think I think I'll take your wife, if you don't mind.

      [Gib pulls the relieved Alison out of the pick-up, cackling maniacally]

    • Gib: I'm gonna miss you, Lance.

      Lance: It's your own fault, you know. You should be coming out to California with me.

      Gib: Yeah, right. Get a totally bitchin' education out there, dude. California. You could be coming to New England with me, you know.

      Lance: Are you crazy? The Ivy leagues stink. All they got there are those ugly intellectual girls with Band-Aids on their knees from playing the cello. No thank you.