Something wild [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; an Orion Pictures release ; Religioso Primitiva ; executive producer, Edward Saxon ; written by E. Max Frye ; produced by Jonathan Demme and Kenneth Utt ; directed by Jonathan Demme.
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FilmPublisher number: CC2009D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 563.Publication details: [Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2011]Edition: Director approved DVD special ed.; widescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)ISBN: - 1604654201
- 9781604654202
- Director of photography, Tak Fujimoto ; edited by Craig McKay ; music score by John Cale and by Laurie Anderson ; opening song by David Byrne ; production designer, Norma Moriceau.
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Northport Library | DVD | COMEDY Somethin | Available | 33111008307445 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1986.
Special features: "Jonathan Demme" interview; "E. Max Frye" interview; Theatrical trailer. Booklet: "Wild things" essay by David Thompson.
Director of photography, Tak Fujimoto ; edited by Craig McKay ; music score by John Cale and by Laurie Anderson ; opening song by David Byrne ; production designer, Norma Moriceau.
Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin, Tracey Walter, Dana Preu, Jack Gilpin, Charles Napier, Robert Ridgely, Sister Carol, The Feelies, Kristin Olsen, John Sayles, Steve Scales, The Texas Kid, Su Tissue, John Waters.
A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves.
MPAA rating: R.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby digital 2.0 surround.
Optional English SDH subtitles.