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Something Wild
Directed by
Jonathan Demme
R
1986
1h 53m
Comedy
,
Romance
,
and more
6.9
92%
69%
6.6
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A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up.
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Cast of Something Wild
Jeff Daniels
Charles Driggs
Melanie Griffith
Audrey Hankel
Ray Liotta
Ray Sinclair
George 'Red' Schwartz
Counter Man
Margaret Colin
Irene
Leib Lensky
Frenchy
Tracey Walter
The Country Squire
Maggie T.
Country Squire Bulldog
Patricia Falkenhain
Charlie's Secretary
Sandy McLeod
Graves' Secretary / Script Supervisor
Robert Ridgely
Richard Graves
Buzz Kilman
TV Newscaster
Kenneth Utt
Dad / Producer
Adelle Lutz
Rose
Charles Napier
Irate Chef
Jim Roche
Motel Philosopher
John Sayles
Motorcycle Cop
John Waters
Used Car Guy
The Texas Kid
Hitchhiking Cowboy
Byron D. Hutcherson
Hitchhiking Kid
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Something Wild Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Something Wild is rough-edged. It doesn't have the grace of Demme's Citizens Band and Melvin and Howard or the heightened simplicity of his Stop Making Sense. It has something else, though -- a freedom that takes off from the genre framework.
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Sean Axmaker
'Something Wild' plays like a screwball Hitchcock film reworked for the freewheeling eighties indie culture. It's playful and colorful but doesn't shy away from the darkness at the end of the road.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
It's not every day that someone goes Alfred Hitchcock one better, but in ''Something Wild,'' Jonathan Demme has done it.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Roger Hurlburt
Something Wild is fun, at first. Then it becomes deadly and weird and engrossing. Predictable it is not.
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
This is the Demme of "Melvin and Howard," soaring back where he belongs, and long overdue too.
People Magazine
People Staff
Buy a ticket to this whirligig of a movie at your own risk. You enter a fun house and exit through a chamber of horrors. But director Jonathan Demme provides a heck of a ride.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
It's a rather routine storyline that's perpetually employed to striking, enthralling effect by Demme...
WWOR-TV (NJ)
Judith Crist
The end's not unexpected, and the soundtrack's overloaded with songs, but once Something Wild gets really wild -- with Daniels and Griffith and Demme's fringe comedy at their best -- the movie makes its mark as offbeat entertainment.
Spectrum Culture
Pat Padua
Part screwball comedy and part thriller, the unpredictable turns of Something Wild indeed chart its characters' untamed, untapped inner resources.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
Captures the tension of trying to stand out in cookie-cutter world without alienating everyone around you.
Midwest Film Journal
Nick Rogers
Radiantly human even as, and after, it erupts in violence and rage, "Something Wild" remains an astonishing rarity - a bittersweet romantic tragicomedy that's generally optimistic ... but also hesitant and harmful exactly where it needs to be.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
The tones shift rampantly, which for some viewers can be disorienting and off-putting. But, if you're in tune with Demme's aesthetic, which usually runs counter to our cinematic intuition, it is a wild ride indeed.
Film.com
William Goss
It begins with a meet-cute and ends with a murder, and sandwiched in between those emotional extremes are romance, regret and revenge.
Variety
Variety Staff
Conceptually and stylistically compelling under Jonathan Demme's sometimes striking direction, this offbeat thriller is about an unlikely couple on the run.
Chicago Reader
Pat Graham
Jonathan Demme's picaresque joyride across the American landscape is still arguably the best thing he's ever done.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The film's principal difficulty is E. Max Frye's original screenplay, which is better thought out in terms of its narrative than of the characters.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Demme is a master of finding the bizarre in the ordinary... This is one of those rare movies where the plot seems surprised at what the characters do.
Washington Post
Paul Attanasio
A load of fun.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Despite the quirky trappings, Something Wild is often as tame as its star couple, a pair who scream Ivory soap and plenty of Miracle Whip.
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