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We investigate theoretically the optical pressure exerted on a dielectric film by the surface plasmon-coupled evanescent fields that are generated in a multilayer system with a thin metal film by a p-polarized plane electromagnetic wave. We show that the evanescent field pressure dissappears by coupling to resonant waveguide modes in the sample film but the pressure can be strongly enhanced by coupling to surface plasmons on the metal film.