Something Wild (Criterion Collection) R

Something Different. Something Daring. Something Dangerous.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 10, 2011
  • Originally Released: 1986
  • Label: Criterion

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User Ratings: 6,474
Part screwball comedy and part thriller, the unpredictable turns of Something Wild indeed chart its characters' untamed, untapped inner resources. Full Review
Spectrum Culture
Aug 27, 2018
Rating: 3.5/4 -- 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. Full Review
Q Network Film Desk
May 20, 2011
Rating: 8/10 -- If you don't already know where it ends up then I assure you that you have no idea where it's going to end up. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
May 16, 2011
It begins with a meet-cute and ends with a murder, and sandwiched in between those emotional extremes are romance, regret and revenge. Full Review
Film.com
May 17, 2011
Jonathan Demme's picaresque joyride across the American landscape is still arguably the best thing he's ever done. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Dec 26, 2006
A load of fun. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Captures the tension of trying to stand out in cookie-cutter world without alienating everyone around you. Full Review
LarsenOnFilm
May 10, 2017

Product Description:

Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels star in this quirky road movie from director Jonathan Demme (MARRIED TO THE MOB, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). Charlie Driggs (Daniels) is a timid New York investment broker who lets himself be abducted during his lunch hour by an attractive nut named Lulu (Griffith). While drunk, she drives him to a New Jersey hotel for some kinky sex and petty thievery, and later convinces him to accompany her to Pennsylvania and pose as her husband at her high school reunion. More misadventures ensue, and Charlie gradually finds himself loosening up and falling in love, but then the film makes a sudden left turn with the appearance of Ray (Ray Liotta), Lulu's real husband--a violent ex-convict. As the film's tone oscillates from lightheartedness to darkness, Demme's affection for his characters never wavers, and he keeps things moving with a jubilant soundtrack of global music and a roster of cameo appearances that include directors John Waters and John Sayles, and musicians the Feelies and Sister Carol. It's a comedy, it's a drama, it's a look at the pleasures and dangers of stepping outside the norm, in life and in film.

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  • UPC: 715515080415
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