Something Wild (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
Something Different. Something Daring. Something Dangerous.
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Blu-ray 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 Waters & John Sayles | |
Produced by | Jonathan Demme, Kenneth Utt & Edward Saxon | |
Director of Photography: | Tak Fujimoto | |
Executive Production by | Edward Saxon |
Entertainment Reviews:
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
...Demme finds haunting overtones....SOMETHING WILD also has three first-class performances...
Los Angeles Times
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.
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 3.5/4 --
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.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 3/5 --
Something Wild is undoubtedly a minor work in the oeuvre of all its major players, yet it is never less than charming, and at times is almost inspired.
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CineVue
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: 54,136
- UPC: 715515080316
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