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
A load of fun. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
...Demme finds haunting overtones....SOMETHING WILD also has three first-class performances...
Los Angeles Times
Nov 6, 1986
...Conceptually and stylistically compelling....SOMETHING WILD gets better the wilder and bolder it becomes...
Variety
Oct 29, 1986
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. Full Review
The Film Yap
Jul 26, 2016
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
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
May 20, 2003
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

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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