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Wild Things movie storyline. Sam Lombardo is a high school consular living in Blue Bay in South Florida, whose life is turned upside down. Kelly Van Ryan, the sexy and seductive daughter of billionaire Sandra Van Ryan, one of Blue Bay’s powerful and elite members of the community who has a crush of Sam accuses Sam of raping her. It gets even worse for Sam, when troubled bad girl Suzie Toller also steps forward and claims that Sam also raped her.
With Sam’s career ruined, loosing his respect from his students and the community and believing both Kelly and Suzie have framed him. Sam hires freelance lawyer Ken Bowden to defend him in court. Investigating the case, police detective Ray Duquette becomes suspicious and he suspects a conspiracy behind it involving Sam, Kelly and Susie and finds nothing is what it seems.
Wild Things is a 1998 American erotic thriller film directed by John McNaughton, and stars Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Robert Wagner, Bill Murray, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Carrie Snodgress. The film includes three direct-to-DVD sequels, Wild Things 2 (2004), Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough (2005) and Wild Things: Foursome (2010).
About the Story
A popular Miami area high school guidance counselor, Sam Lombardo, is accused of rape by two female students, the wealthy and popular girl named Kelly Van Ryan and poor girl named Suzie Toller, and hires lawyer Kenneth Bowden to defend him.
At trial, Suzie admits that she and Kelly had made everything up to get revenge on Lombardo: Suzie for him failing to bail her out of jail on a minor drug charge and Kelly for him having an affair with her mother, Sandra. Kelly’s mother is humiliated by the scandal, and Lombardo and Bowden negotiate an $8.5 million settlement for defamation. In reality, Lombardo and the two girls were accomplices who used the trial as a way to get money from Kelly’s wealthy family. To celebrate their success, the three accomplices have sex.
Police detective Ray Duquette, against the wishes of the district attorney’s office, continues to investigate Lombardo. He suspects the trio are working a scam, telling both Kelly and Suzie that Lombardo has already transferred the money to an off-shore account. Suzie panics and goes to Kelly for help. Kelly assures Suzie that they can trust each other, but separately tells Lombardo over the phone that they may have to get rid of Suzie.
Suzie overhears and attacks Kelly in the pool. Both girls fight, but eventually end up kissing on the lips and having sex in the pool, all witnessed by Duquette, still investigating the trio. A few nights later, Lombardo and Kelly take Suzie to the beach and he kills her while Kelly waits nearby. After wrapping the body in plastic, they throw it in the trunk of the car and drive out to the swamp, where Lombardo disposes of it.
Duquette and his partner, Gloria, are called in to investigate Suzie’s disappearance. Her blood and teeth are found at the beach while her car is found at a bus terminal. The D.A.’s office again insists that he drop the case, but Duquette asks his partner to watch Lombardo. Lombardo confronts Gloria and invites her in to read his school files on Kelly. She discovers that Kelly is a deeply troubled and violent girl made worse by the suicide of her father.
Meanwhile, Duquette goes to Kelly’s house to confront her. When he arrives, Kelly attacks him, shooting him in the arm. Duquette is left with no choice but to kill her in self-defense. No charges are filed against Duquette, but he is dismissed from the force for disobeying orders.
Sam returns to his beach bungalow to find Duquette taking a shower. They were partners, setting everyone up so they could split the money just two ways. Although Lombardo is not pleased that Duquette killed Kelly instead of framing her as originally planned, he agrees that they now have fewer loose ends. The two agree to go fishing on Lombardo’s sailboat, where Lombardo tries to eliminate Duquette.
When Duquette fights back, he is shot and killed by a very much alive Suzie. She kills Duquette as revenge for killing her friend Davie, and for arresting her on a drug charge when he realized that she had witnessed the murder (the arrest from which Lombardo had not bailed her out). Suzie then poisons Lombardo’s drink and knocks him overboard, so his body won’t be found.
Wild Things (1998)
Directed by: John McNaughton
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Robert Wagner, Bill Murray, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Carrie Snodgress
Screenplay by: Stephen Peters
Production Design by: Edward T. McAvoy
Cinematography by: Jeffrey L. Kimball
Film Editing by: Elena Maganini
Costume Design by: Kimberly A. Tillman
Set Decoration by: William A. Cimino
Art Direction by: William Hiney
Music by: George S. Clinton
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexuality, nudity, language and some violence.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: March 20, 1998
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