1998 · mystery · thriller · drama
Wild Things
Directed by John McNaughton1h 48m1998
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...
Our read: Wild Things (1998) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive mystery · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- twisty
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