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"The Sure Thing" is another romantic film which follows the "opposites attract" formula ("It Happened One Night", "Keith", "Some Kind Of Wonderful", "Pretty In Pink", "The Sure Thing", "A Walk To Remember" etc etc) in which a sheltered but beautiful girl gradually falls in love with an underachieving, free-spirited boy.
The director here is Rob Reiner, and his template is Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night", Reiner unashamedly homaging and then reworking whole chunks of Capra's film for young audience member. The film's "better to be in love than to be chasing sex" message is typical of these testosterone fuelled teen fantasy movies, but somehow it all manages to work, thanks largely to another super likable performance by a John Cusak and a couple sensitive moments between him and co star Daphne Zuniga.
8/10 – Three iconic scenes and a neat sequence with Tim Robbins lift this routine teen comedy above the pack. Worth one viewing.
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tieman64 25 November 2010
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