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“Sometimes producers actually have good ideas,” laughs Peters. Though it was originally set in a Phoenix, Arizona-like suburb, Guber – a self-styled hotshot producer – suggested relocating to south Florida, where the story tapped into class frictions: super-wealthy, influential socialites vs gator-wrestling Everglades hicks. (Trust me, you’ll never guess.) In the meantime, the director dazzles the viewer with sex, scenery, and recurring shots of the Florida wildlife-which understands more about what’s going on than the thrill-seeking audience.The film was produced by Peter Guber’s Mandalay Pictures. This is a well-constructed piece of pulp, and McNaughton keeps us guessing, even through the closing credits, over exactly which two principals will end up in the clear and in the money.

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The best scene in the movie has Bacon and Dillon cheerfully sizing each other up on a sailboat, trying to determine which of them has the stones to kill the other…. Among Richards’ pout, Campbell’s spiteful glares, and Murray’s sleepy, hangdog expressions, McNaughton has wonderful faces to work with.

McNaughton’s strength is his willingness to let the camera linger on faces long after the dialogue and music have faded from the soundtrack, implying that there’s more to the story than mere words can convey.

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Luckily, Wild Things is helmed by John McNaughton, who’s famed for Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (though he should be just as celebrated for Mad Dog and Glory and Normal Life).

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Thus begins a series of double-crosses that a lesser director would render incomprehensible. Dillon’s shady lawyer (Bill Murray) wins an acquittal, but two suspicious cops (Kevin Bacon and Daphne Rubin-Vega) won’t let the case rest, especially after Dillon wins a healthy settlement against Richards and her slutty mom, Russell. His easy rapport with students takes a bad turn when he’s accused of rape by both an heiress’s daughter (Richards) and a delinquent swamp rat (Neve Campbell). Matt Dillon stars as a high-school guidance counselor in the ritzy resort town of Blue Bay. The plot is so convoluted that it practically nullifies itself. Is there more to Wild Things than the trash? Sure, but not much more: Frankly, it’s the trash that holds the film together. (For the record, they’re Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, and, uh…Kevin Bacon.)

Wild Things features bikinis, bludgeonings, wet T-shirts, car chases, lesbian sex, harpoonings, threesomes, gunplay, a soundtrack of today’s hottest hits, and three displays of frontal nudity.

Wild Things-the latest steamy Florida noir to hit our screens in the post- Body Heat era-has been pitched as an opportunity to watch fresh young starlets flaunt their nubile bodies around a couple of aging Tiger Beat hunks and mister, if you go to the theater expecting to be titillated, you’ll get what you paid for. “There’s something to be said for a movie that delivers the goods. “Blending the superheated emotions of Douglas Sirk with the soft-porn high-jinks of Russ Meyer, the result is steamy, ludicrous and very entertaining.” - Richard Williams, The Guardian Showtimes and tickets available at noon on Tue Mar 28.

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