Buttoned-down business type Jeff Daniels meets wild and crazy Melanie Griffith in a coffee shop, and they wind up on a spree across the country that turns them into comic outlaws before Melanies psychotic old boyfriend Ray Liotta turns up with a knife to add a nasty edge to the high jinx.
Directed by Jonathon Demme, from E. Max Frye's script, Something Wild exudes trendiness thanks to a superb soundtrack of weirdly-chosen artists and a cast of bizarro cameo players like John Sayles and John Waters but dates fast.
