Synopsis
When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...
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Cast
- Kevin BaconSergeant Ray Duquette
- Matt DillonSam Lombardo
- Neve CampbellSuzie Toller
- Denise RichardsKelly Van Ryan
- Theresa RussellSandra Van Ryan
- Bill MurrayKenneth Bowden
- Daphne Rubin-VegaDetective Gloria Perez
- Robert WagnerTom Baxter
- Carrie SnodgressRuby
- Jeff PerryDistrict Attorney Bryce Hunter
Recommendations
- 80
Salon
One reason Wild Things works so well is that director John McNaughton sustains a darkly comic tone throughout the film without letting it degenerate into farce. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It's like a three-way collision between a softcore sex film, a soap opera and a B-grade noir. I liked it. - 67
Austin Chronicle
The fun of Wild Things -- and there's a lot of it -- is in its never-ending game of cross and double cross. - 60
The New York Times
Predicated on two ideas -- that human nature is rife with perfidy and that it's important to get the cast into hot cars or bathing suits whenever possible -- Mr. McNaughton and the cinematographer Jeffrey L. Kimball (''Top Gun,'' ''True Romance'') give a decadent gloss to this far-fetched, quintuple-crossing tale. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Contains extremely graphic sex and many twists that are unpredictable but not very compelling. - 38
ReelViews
This is film noir for the MTV generation: fast-paced, slick, flashy, gleefully mindless, and hollow to the core. - 30
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Wild Things, which was written by Stephen Peters and directed by John McNaughton, lacks fantasy and flamboyance, that it lacks, precisely, wild things, and that most of it is just flat. - 25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This picture breaks through the limits and goes way beyond the pale -- it seems to enjoy irking us for the sheer hell of it.
