Flustered yuppie Frank Whaley tries to dump his lusty new date's dead dog so he can get back to the Sure Thing. His date Christine Harnos is definitely slinky, but it's unclear why she would ever be interested in pasty faced, nerdy Frank. Once I realized that she looks like Ralph Macchio with breasts, the party was over for me. Her name is Greek, and she looks Greek. Hmmm, ex-Beatle and exec producer George Harrison is Greek too. Cowinky-dink? I don't think so.
Randy Quaid is a great third wheel as the philosophizing lumpen proletariat taxi driver who guides the couple and dead dog in a bag through a picaresque series of bizarre scenes and characters. The unjustly neglected Nancy Kwan is hilarious as the restaurant owner who wants to make soup with the deceased's ears.
To recap, horny but decent guy finds Sure Thing, but rejects her on principle in favor of...what? Burying a dead dog in the park, and new deranged buddy Randy Quaid. What a lousy payoff. At least in the original The Sure Thing, when John Cusack rejected a very young Nicolette Sheridan, he got Daphne Zuniga.
Of course, in reality Frank would throw the dog down the trash chute in Christine's luxurious apartment building, then shag her rotten. But the movie would be over in 10 minutes, and we'd miss the grotesquery, and Frank's gradual realization that his principles are worth more than The Sure Thing. Actually, you can have both principles and sex, just not in this particular movie's universe. Suspend disbelief, and it's funny, if a bit predictable, stuff. BC
Randy Quaid is a great third wheel as the philosophizing lumpen proletariat taxi driver who guides the couple and dead dog in a bag through a picaresque series of bizarre scenes and characters. The unjustly neglected Nancy Kwan is hilarious as the restaurant owner who wants to make soup with the deceased's ears.
To recap, horny but decent guy finds Sure Thing, but rejects her on principle in favor of...what? Burying a dead dog in the park, and new deranged buddy Randy Quaid. What a lousy payoff. At least in the original The Sure Thing, when John Cusack rejected a very young Nicolette Sheridan, he got Daphne Zuniga.
Of course, in reality Frank would throw the dog down the trash chute in Christine's luxurious apartment building, then shag her rotten. But the movie would be over in 10 minutes, and we'd miss the grotesquery, and Frank's gradual realization that his principles are worth more than The Sure Thing. Actually, you can have both principles and sex, just not in this particular movie's universe. Suspend disbelief, and it's funny, if a bit predictable, stuff. BC