Something Wild

Before seeing Jonathan Demme's Ricki and the Flash, revisit his first movie about a woman with a rock and roll heart. SOMETHING WILD is a wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare and screwball odyssey. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive woman named Lulu (Melanie Griffith). The sexy Louise Brooks look-alike doesn't take him home, but shanghais him for a bizarre road trip to Virginia that includes kinky bondage sex, destruction of property, and robbery.