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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta & Melanie Griffith | |
Performer: | Tracey Walter, Charles Napier, John Sayles, John Waters, Jack Gilpin, Margaret Colin & Su Tissue | |
Directed by | Jonathan Demme | |
Edited by | Craig McKay | |
Music by | Laurie Anderson, John Cale & David Byrne | |
Screenwriting by | E. Max Frye | |
Composition by | Laurie Anderson & John Cale | |
Cameo: | John Sayles & John Waters | |
Produced by | Jonathan Demme, Kenneth Utt & Edward Saxon | |
Director of Photography: | Tak Fujimoto | |
Executive Production by | Edward Saxon |
Entertainment Reviews:
A load of fun.
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Washington Post
...Demme finds haunting overtones....SOMETHING WILD also has three first-class performances...
Los Angeles Times
...Conceptually and stylistically compelling....SOMETHING WILD gets better the wilder and bolder it becomes...
Variety
Rating: 4.5/5 --
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.
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The Film Yap
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Captures the tension of trying to stand out in cookie-cutter world without alienating everyone around you.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 2.5/5 --
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.
New York Times
Jonathan Demme's picaresque joyride across the American landscape is still arguably the best thing he's ever done.
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Chicago Reader
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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- Sales Rank: 54,773
- UPC: 715515080415
- Shipping Weight: 0.26/lbs (approx)
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