The Sure Thing (1985)

Daphne Zuniga: Alison Bradbury

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• Gib : [encounter a padlocked trailer while attempting to get out of the rain]  It's locked! Good! This is very good! It's important that this place should have an air-tight security system... in the middle of nowhere!

  Alison : [digs through her bag]  I might have a nail file... I have a credit card. I have a credit card!

  Gib : Credit cards work on a completely different kind of lock.

  Alison : No, you don't seem to understand. I have a credit card!

  Gib : You have a credit card?

  Alison : I have a credit card!

  Gib : [relieved]  You have a credit card.

  Alison : [suddenly crestfallen]  Oh. My dad told me *specifically* I can only use it in case of an emergency.

  Gib : [sarcastically]  Well, maybe one will come up.

• Alison Bradbury : Spontaneity has its time and place.

• Alison : You'll never believe what I wanted to be when I was six.

  Gib : A classics professor?

• Alison : What are you doing?

  Gib : I'm going to bed.

  Alison : Not with me you're not.

  Gib : I'm not going to bed with you, I'm going to bed in a bed you happen to be in also.

• Alison Bradbury : [checking her calendar]  Let's see, Friday. 5:30, dinner. 6:00, Calculus. 7:00, news. 7:30, shower. 7:45, phone call. Eight o'clock?

  Gib : [sarcastic]  Gee, I don't know. That's when I rearrange my sock drawer.

• Alison : [ranting about Gib]  And you should see the crap he eats! Cheese balls and beer for breakfast!

  Jason : [shocked]  How do you know what he eats for breakfast?

• 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.

• Lady in Car : What are you gonna name it?

  Alison Bradbury : What?

  Lady in Car : The baby.

  Alison Bradbury : [realizing she's faking being pregnant]  Oh, the baby. Well, if it's a girl, Cynthia, and if it's a boy, Elliot.

  Lady in Car : Those are lovely names.

  Walter (Gib) Gibson : Elliot? You're gonna name the kid Elliot? No, you can't name the kid Elliot. Elliot is a fat kid with glasses who eats paste. You're not gonna name the kid Elliot. You gotta give him a real name. Give him a name. Like Nick.

  Alison Bradbury : Nick?

  Walter (Gib) Gibson : Yeah, Nick. Nick's a real name. Nick's your buddy. Nick's the kind of guy you can trust, the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn't mind if you puke in his car, Nick!

  [Alison looks disgusted] 

  Walter (Gib) Gibson : [to Lady in Car]  Oh, vomit. I'm sorry. Vomit.

• Professor Taub : [commenting on students' papers]  Miss Bradbury. You, on the other hand, you express your ideas very clearly. Except that, your paper is dry, Alison. There's not enough of *you* coming through. Loosen up, Alison. Have some fun! Yes, sleep when you feel like it, not when you think you should. Eat food that is bad for you - at least once in a while. Have conversations with people whose clothes are not color coordinated.

  [class laughs] 

  Professor Taub : Make love in a hammock!

  [class hoots, hollers, and high-fives] 

  Professor Taub : Life is the ultimate experience, and you have to live it to write about it.

  [Alison raises her hand] 

  Professor Taub : Yes, Alison?

  Alison Bradbury : What did you say after "hammock?"

• Alison : You can't go in there.

  Gib : Yes I can. This is America, you can go anywhere.