Jonathan Demme directs Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith in this cult classic comedy of a repressed businessman and an impish free spirit on wild road trip that takes a turn into darkness.
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‘Something Wild’ – a 1962 rediscovery on Criterion Channel
Not to be confused with the Jonathan Demme screwball comedy/thriller by the same name, the 1962 Something Wild is an unusually frank and sensitive drama about a teenage girl recovering from rape. The film opens on the assault, a non-explicit scene that communicates both the violence of the rape and the terrible sense of violation […]