Something Wild [1986]
Melanie Griffith plays a free spirited girl who meets yuppie Jeff Daniels at a New York diner and half kidnaps him for the weekend as they embark on a road trip from the city through Pennsylvania in order to go to her high school reunion where she comes across ex-husband Ray Liotta and things quickly turn dangerous.
Definitely a film with tonal twists. The first half is fun all the way as Griffith's Lulu larks about with Daniels having kinky motel sex and robbing liquor stores as the film has a playfully breezy vibe even though for Daniels it's kind of a yuppie nightmare.
The film then moves up a gear with Liotta in proper crazed mode as he kidnaps them both, violently beating Daniels in the process before the three head into Virginia.
Jonathan Demme's film confounds the viewers expectations with all the wild turns it takes but remains a clever anarchic black comedy with Griffith in brilliant form.
Unpredictable, quirky and charming - and that's not just John Waters cameo as a used car salesman.
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