Episode 34 – Something Wild (1986)

People dance in front of a live band.

It’s an episode of unbridled enthusiasm as we take on Jonathan Demme’s romantic-screwball-comedy-meets-domestic-crime-drama Something Wild, starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, and Ray Liotta in one of film’s most intense love-triangles, and littered with music from David Byrne, John Cale, Laurie Anderson, and a memorable appearance by New Jersey’s post-punk legends The Feelies playing a high school reunion. We fell in love with this movie before it was even over.

However! Let it be said, that while a significant chunk of this film is set in Pennsylvania–our home turf–we take issue with the liquor laws of the state as portrayed in this movie, because let me tell ya, PA has some very weird laws.

Episode 34 – Something Wild (1986) Mary Versus the Movies

Leave a comment