![]() There was an insurance guy around here earlier. When Sam asks Ken about his neck brace, Ken replies, “This? I don’t have to wear it all the time. The opposing attorneys in the rape trial of Sam Lombardo are played by Chicago-area legends Jeff Perry (as the prosecutor) and Bill Murray as strip-mall attorney Ken Bowden. You’re not going to get deep into any discussion of John McNaughton’s Florida-noir mystery Wild Things without mentioning the champagne-soaked three-way scene with Matt Dillon’s Sam Lombardo, Denise Richards’ Kelly Van Ryan and Neve Campbell’s Suzie Toller in a seedy motel room in the Everglades but what makes the scene even more memorably s.When Kelly laments that she misses her father, Sandra remarks, “He didn’t have to kill himself, Kelly.” After Kelly accuses guidance counselor Sam of rape, Sandra rages, “That son of a bitch must be insane to think he can do this to me!” Um, to YOU? To say Kelly Van Ryan and her mother Sandra have a toxic relationship is an understatement. ![]() No, not the white-knuckle D-Day invasion sequence from Saving Private Ryan. ![]() Still, my favorite animal shot comes when Sandra Van Ryan’s dimwit pool-boy lover, the fantastically named Frankie Condo (Eduardo Yáñez), is beating the daylights out of Sam, and we cut to a shot of a raccoon hanging from a tree, watching the fight as if it had paid a ticket broker for a good seat. Mystery Thriller Today marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most notorious movie moments of the '90s. The 1998 thriller centered around two high school students, Suzie Toller and Kelly Van Ryan ( Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, respectively), who, alongside their guidance counselor Sam Lombardo. Kimball frequently cut to glimpses of alligators lurking in the Florida swamps, echoing the predatory nature of virtually every main character. McNaughton and cinematographer Jeffrey L.This Chicago Film Society screening will include a post-show Q&A with director John McNaughton. Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon in 'Wild Things' Credit: Columbia Pictures In the end, McNaughton removed the sexual sparks from the scene after some pushback.
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