“Something Wild” was joyfully offbeat — a screwball Americana rock ‘n’ roll road-comedy-that-turns-into-a-thriller, a genre film that treated everybody onscreen like somebody worth caring about. (Even ...

There’s a magic trick at the heart of the 1986 movie "Something Wild," a kind of cinematic sleight-of-hand that makes viewers realize they’re watching a much different movie than the one they thought ...