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Something Wild
Synopsis
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
Full Credits
  • Director:
    Jonathan Demme,
  • Writer:
    E. Max Frye,
  • Producer:
    Jonathan Demme, Kenneth Utt,
  • Cinematographer:
    Tak Fujimoto,
  • Editor:
    Craig McKay,
  • Executive Producer:
    Edward Saxon,
  • Cast:
    Tracey Walter, Margaret Colin, Ray Liotta, Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, George 'Red' Schwartz,
  • Associate Producer:
    Ronald M. Bozman, Camilla Toniolo, Bill Miller,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Rudy Gaskins,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Ronald M. Bozman,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Kyle McCarthy,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Dan Sable,
  • Camera Operator:
    Tony C. Jannelli,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Sandy McLeod,
  • Boom Operator:
    Linda Murphy,
  • Property Master:
    Ann Miller,
  • Set Dresser:
    Richard Adee, Kevin Oates,
  • Sound Editor:
    Paul Trejo, Michael Moyse,
  • Production Manager:
    Kenneth Utt,
  • Best Boy Electric:
    John Smith,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    John Robotham,
  • Color Timer:
    Reid Burns,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Laurie Anderson, John Cale,
  • Extras Casting:
    Beth Cavano,
  • Casting:
    Billy Hopkins, Risa Bramon Garcia,
  • Wardrobe Supervisor:
    Michael Forcade, Jacqueline Pinon, Julie Parker, Maria Rita Barbera,
  • Electrician:
    Gene Engels, Ken Beattie, Kurt Illinger,
  • Casting Assistant:
    Heidi Levitt, Lisa Peterson,
  • Music Supervisor:
    Sharon Boyle,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Tom Fleischman,
  • Main Title Theme Composer:
    David Byrne,
  • Carpenter:
    Peter Demme, Chuck Esty,
  • Assistant Camera:
    Billy Gerardo, Vinnie Gerardo,
  • Sound Assistant:
    Louis Bertini, Lynn Sable, Jill Searchinger,
  • Costume Design:
    Norma Moriceau,
  • Creative Consultant:
    Jacek Laskus,
  • Assistant Property Master:
    Winston 'Ford' Lawless, Lewis 'Jiggs' Walker, Kathleen Dolan,
  • Set Decoration:
    William F. Reynolds,
  • Sound Mixer:
    Les Lazarowitz,
  • Dolly Grip:
    James Finnerty,
  • ADR Recordist:
    Reilly Steele,
  • ADR Editor:
    Ann Stein, Harriet Winn,
  • Art Department Assistant:
    Clay A. Griffith, Kathy Bird,
  • Costume Supervisor:
    Eugenie Bafaloukos,
  • Gaffer:
    Charles Meere III,
  • Other:
    Alisa Lepselter,
  • Grip:
    Jim Meade, Andrea 'Maude' Graham, Brian Marshall,
  • Still Photographer:
    S. Karin Epstein, Don Smetzer,
  • Key Grip:
    John Donahue,
  • Best Boy Grip:
    Bob Brennan,
  • Other:
    Yvette Nabel,
  • Transportation Coordinator:
    John Leonidas,
  • Scenic Artist:
    Susan Wood, Jim Finguerra,
  • First Assistant Editor:
    Diane Schaub,
  • Production Office Coordinator:
    Grace Blake,
  • Sound Recordist:
    Frank Graziadei,
  • Transportation Captain:
    Dennis Radesky,
  • Thanks:
    Chip Taylor,
  • Other:
    Tom Schurke,
  • Production Design:
    Norma Moriceau,
  • Art Direction:
    Stephen J. Lineweaver,
  • Music Consultant:
    Gary Goetzman,
  • Other:
    Jerry Holt,

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