Not really a review of this movie but RIP Jonathan Demme all the same. 

There is a wonderful moment in Something Wild, Jonathan Demme’s freewheeling screwball road movie and just about my favourite movie of all time, in which our newly cut-loose yuppie hero, Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels), in covert hot pursuit of the girl he loves (Melanie Griffith) and the ex-con tough (Ray Liotta) who stole her from him, installs himself in the parking lot of an all-black church in Virginia with a snack and a pair of binoculars, training a tired eye on his marks as they lounge about the pool at a motel across the road. Exhausted, Charlie takes a nap — only to be stirred from…

stayed up for my first midnight screening at the new bev and WOOHOO this was a blast!! first shot of young jeff daniels make me go “oh nooo he’s hottttt!” 

exceedingly charming performances and funny + compelling script that was written by a guy who was still in film school ……. which i suppose explains the occasional messiness, but somehow the several tone shifts work. like melanie griffith’s character, the story is impulsive, capricious. whirlwind romance IS messy, especially when you’re following your most basic instincts. 

you know when you’re so deliriously beguiled by someone that you’d follow them anywhere? like, if they pulled up in a stolen car you’d get in with only the slightest of hesitations, because if…