![]() ![]() ![]() For 50 minutes it seems like we’re watching the ’80s equivalent of a classic screwball comedy with Lulu serving as the daffy, downtown descendant of, say, Katharine Hepburn in "Bringing Up Baby." Sensing a kindred rebellious spirit - or maybe an easy mark - she kidnaps him, only half against his will, for a weekend of crime, boozing and motel sex as she road-trips back to her hometown. It works like this: In the film’s opening scene, a free-spirited woman who calls herself Lulu ( Melanie Griffith) watches the business suit-clad Charlie ( Jeff Daniels) walk out of a restaurant without paying his bill. There’s a magic trick at the heart of the 1986 movie " Something Wild," a kind of cinematic sleight-of-hand that makes viewers realize they’re watching a much different movie than the one they thought they were watching. ![]()
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