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Something Wild

film by Demme [1986]

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discussed in biography

In Jonathan Demme
…cult classic romantic road film Something Wild (1986), whose tone shifts from mirthful to menacing; and the quirky comedy Married to the Mob (1988).
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role of Griffith

In Melanie Griffith: Body Double, Something Wild, and Working Girl
…star; Jonathan Demme’s romantic comedy Something Wild (1986), which became a cult classic; and Mike Figgis’s Stormy Monday (1988), a drama that starred Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas politician and Griffith as his mistress.
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