The Sure Thing (1985)
Directed by Rob Reiner
Two bickering students from a New England college end up crossing the country together over Christmas break, he heading to a promised fling in California and she to her boyfriend at UCLA.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Campus≈ 00:03:00Gib and Alison's college (fictional)InferredFictional
Gib's clumsy attempts to win over classmate Alison fall flat.
- 2On the road west≈ 00:58:00ArizonaStated on screen
Stranded, hitchhiking and broke, they push on west through Arizona and grow closer.
- 3University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)≈ 01:10:00Stated on screen
- 4Campus≈ 01:25:00Gib and Alison's college (fictional)InferredFictional
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 8,189 km
- Places
- 3
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 4
- Car: 4,122 km
- Not shown: 4,067 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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