Something Wild
“Something Different. Something Daring. Something Dangerous.”
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
Genres
Crime, Comedy, Romance
Studio
Orion Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Something Wild performed
Budget
$7.0M
Worldwide Gross
$8.4M
Gross Profit
$1.4M
Return
1.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Crime) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Charles Driggs
Jeff Daniels
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Audrey Hankel
Melanie Griffith
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Ray Sinclair
Ray Liotta
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Richard Graves
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TV Newscaster
Buzz Kilman
TV Newscaster
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