The direct hit
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The direct hit |
| Original title | The sure thing |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rob Reiner |
| script |
Steven Bloom Jonathan Robert |
| production | Roger Birnbaum |
| music | Tom Scott |
| camera | Robert Elswit |
| cut | Robert Leighton |
| occupation | |
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The direct hit , also known as Mercilessly in love (Original title: The Sure Thing ), is an American feature film from 1985 with John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga . The story mixes elements of college comedy with those of the road movie .
action
Walter Gibson, a student at a small college in New England , gets a picture of a woman in a bikini from his high school friend Lance. Lance invites Walter to Los Angeles for Christmas and promises him a night with this woman. She promises unrestrained sex without consequences - in the eyes of the boys “a real hit”. Walter's fellow student Alison Bradbury, herself well organized and determined, cannot stand Walter, who is perceived as an angry man. She also wants to go to Los Angeles to visit her long-term friend Jason. By chance they come across a lift independently of each other on the notice board and drive together in the car of the couple Mary and Gary. During her trip, Walter repeatedly daydreams of the unknown photo beauty.
From the start of the journey, Walter and Alison incite each other. When Walter provokes her by accusing her of being uptight, Alison leans out of the moving car and shows her bare breasts to a passing group of thugs. As the driver of the car, Gary is given a ticket for causing public nuisance. Walter and Alison are then abandoned by him and they now hitchhike across the United States to get to their destination. After several inconveniences, they are left in the rain - without money or shelter. Alison finally remembers that her father gave her a credit card that she should use "only in emergencies." This enables both of them to spend the night in a luxury hotel, where Walter buys a rose for Alison - using his credit card. They no longer find each other unsympathetic, which is why Alison offers to share the hotel bed from now on and not take turns sleeping on the floor as before. That night Walter dreams for the first time not of the stranger, but of Alison, which makes him wake up confused. However, the new harmony comes to an abrupt end when the supposedly sleeping Alison overhears Walter and a truck driver who takes her the last stretch to Los Angeles discuss the basic advantages of a "real hit."
Arrived in Los Angeles, Alison and Walter split up in an argument. Alison visits her boyfriend, but soon finds it boring in his presence. Walter, who meets his buddy Lance at a party, has absolutely no desire to dress up with flower garlands and tinsel raffia skirts and plunge into the fray. Walter does not even decide to flirt with the dream woman until he discovers Alison at the party that is accompanied by her boyfriend Jason. A fierce argument breaks out about who has the happier relationship with the better partner. Walter finally withdraws defiantly with the dream woman. Walter describes the following in an essay that his professor reads aloud after the winter break as an example of a good text before his course, in which Alison also takes part. Walter describes his doubts about the correctness of the "direct hit" and admits that he did not sleep with the girl. Walter and Alison finally find each other.
background
The film was shot on the grounds of Cornell University in Ithaca , on the campus of the University of the Pacific in Stockton and in Los Angeles . Its production amounted to an estimated 4.5 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 18.1 million in US cinemas.
When Rob Reiner was cast, the then unknown Nicollette Sheridan wore a loose dress. When he asked Sheridan if she was available for a test shoot in a bikini, she confidently replied that he “couldn't take” the sight of her. With that she had convinced Reiner.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on May 1, 1985 that the film was a "small miracle". He shows how the protagonist falls in love and avoids sex scenes. The young leading actors John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga are talented.
The lexicon of international films found that the film was "accompanied by many musical numbers and staged quickly". However, he appeals "in a very prudish and occasionally hypocritical way to orient dreams on their realizability without giving up". The film is therefore "a mixture of screwball and teenage sex comedy with a moral claim to cleanliness".
According to Prisma , the direct hit was "college joke full of punch lines" that was "severely underestimated by the critics at the time".
Web links
- The hit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The hit atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations of Der Volltreffer on imdb.com, accessed on November 18, 2007.
- ↑ Production costs and box office results from Der Volltreffer on imdb.com, accessed on November 18, 2007.
- ↑ If Movies Aren't the Sure Thing for Nicollette Sheridan, She's Got Her Guy, Leif Garrett , people.com
- ↑ Roger Ebert's film review on rogerebert.suntimes.com, accessed November 16, 2007.
- ↑ The direct hit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The direct hit on prisma.de, accessed on November 16, 2007.