The acting by Cusack and Zuniga is perfect. Maybe the storyline is predictable, so what. When you consider the relatively young age of the actors, Daphne Zuniga was 22 and John Cusack was only 17, and it was only Rob Reiner's second film, it makes this film that much more of a milestone. This movie has GOT to be the most underrated movie of the 80's if not of all time.