A Romantic Comedy From Rob Reiner.
Features: DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
John Cusack (Grosse Point Blank), Daphne Zuniga (Spaceballs) and Nicollette Sheridan ("Knots Landing") star in this charming tale of true love that's at once "intelligent, fun, a bit devilish...[and] delightful, frisky and perceptively funny" (The Hollywood Reporter)!College freshman Walter "Gib" Gibson (Cusack) has a "sure thing" going--a date with a very hot and very sex-craved blonde (Sheridan) across the country in LA. Crossed by fate--and the ride-share bulletin board--Gib makes the trip with a studious and abrasive coed (Zuniga). But as they mount every obstacle from show tune-singing simpletons and bad weather to leering truck drivers and worse luck, their temperaments change...and Gib realizes that the only sure thing is that losing the real thing would be the worst thing of all!
"This film gets my unapologetic nomination for GREATEST FILM EVER MADE!" Michael Dare, LA Weekly
Editor's Note
When free-spirited but juvenile Walter "Gib" Gibson (John Cusack) meets studious, uptight Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga) at an unnamed Ivy League college, sparks fly; unfortunately, they are mostly of the disastrous variety as all of Gib's attempts at courtship fall painfully apart. Inevitably, the duo is tossed together when they both answer the same ad for a ride to California. While Alison is traveling to reunite with her tidy law school boyfriend, Gib is on the road to meet a beautiful girl his best friend promises him is "a sure thing." Before too long, Gib and Alison's bickering inflames the driver, who promptly deposits the two with their suitcases on the side of a lonely highway thousands of miles from their destination. As the misadventures pile up, the initially contentious pair begin to take a liking to one another--but do these two dare fall in love? Rob Reiner's initial attempt at romantic comedy pays subtle homage, with gentle lyricism, to the classic screwballs of early Hollywood. The film is buoyed by the stellar performances of the two leads, Cusack (in one of his first significant roles) and Zuniga, who are reminiscent of the great studio pairings of the past.
Plot Summary
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 grate 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.
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