Something Wild (1986)
- Starring:
- Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jonathan Demme
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive lower-class woman named Lulu (Melanie Griffith). The sexy Louise Brooks lookalike doesn't take him home, but shanghais him for a bizarre roadtrip to Virginia that includes kinky bondage sex, destruction of property, and robbery. Things get stranger when Lulu tells Charlie that her real name is Audrey and takes him home to meet her mother, asking him to pose as her husband. The charade continues until her high-school reunion, where the roadtrip (and the entire film) takes a sharp U-turn into psycho-thriller territory. Audrey's dangerously psychotic ex-con husband, Ray Sinclair (Ray Liotta), shows up. What had been a liberating fling for Charlie turns into a bloody and vicious battle for survival. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 114 mins
Complete Cast:
- Jeff Daniels - Charlie Driggs
- Ray Liotta - Ray Sinclair
- Tracey Walter - The Country Squire
- Jack Gilpin - Larry Dillman
- Kristin Olsen - Tracy
- Charles Napier - Irate Chef
- James Hurd - Stylish Reunion Couple
- Dung Chau - Robbery Victim
- Emma Bryne - Junk Store Gal
- Chloe Amateau - Chloe
- Adelle Lutz - Rose
- Heather Shaw - Choir Girl
- Steve Scales - Nelson
- John Montgomery - Harmonica Slim
- Max the Dog - Himself
- Gil Lazier - Homicide Detective
- Robert Ridgely - Richard Graves
- The Texas Kid - Hitchhiking Cowboy
- T. Maggie - Country Squire Bulldog
- Joanna Kitchen-Hurd - Stylish Reunion Couple
- D. Byron Hutcherson
- Patricia Falkenhain - Charlie's Secretary
- Ding-A-Ling - Motorcycle Dog
- Sandy McLeod - Graves' Secretary
- Sister Carol East - Dottie
- Buzz Kilman - TV Newscaster
- The Feelies - The Willies
- Melanie Griffith - Audrey 'Lulu' Hankel
- Margaret Colin - Irene
- Dana Preu - Peaches
- Su Tissue - Peggy Dillman
- John Sayles - Motorcycle Cop
- Kenneth Utt - Dad
- Lee Joseph Davis - James Williams
- Thomas Cavano - Guitar Player
- Vic Blair - Cowboy Maitre d'
- Edward Saxon - Kevin Stroup
- Gary Goetzman - Guido Paonessa
- George "Red" Schwartz - Counter Man
- R. Jeffery Rioux
- Stanton D. Miranda - "Darlene"
- Johnny Marrs - Motorcycle Driver
- John Carpenter
- Henry George Wyche, Jr.
- The Crew - Gas Station Rapper
- K. Marilee Smith
- Eleana Hutcherson - Hitchhiking Kid
- Jeff Herig - Police Officer
- Ardella Mary Drew - Donna Penski
- Dorothy Demme - Junk Store Gal
- Anna Levine - The Girl in 3F
- Jim Roche - Motel Philosopher
- Leib Lensky - Frenchy
- Director(s):
- Jonathan Demme
- Writer(s):
- Max E. Frye
- Producer(s):
- Jonathan Demme, Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Profanity, Strong Sexual Content, Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children)
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- 1986 - Something Wild - Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Best Screenplay







