It was truly an awful movie. I don't understand how anyone could refer to Mike as "romantic". This is the TMC description of this movie: "Something Wild (1961) A rape victim runs away from her family and takes shelter with a romantic auto mechanic." A ROMANTIC???? He was a kidnapper. From the moment he refused to let her out of his apartment I was unable to change the channel in hopes that this kidnapping, drunk, would eventually redeem himself - HE NEVER DID. I do understand that Mary Ann Robinson was initially trying to kill herself, but how could keeping her hostage in a grubby apartment make things better. Mary Ann was unstable but I think Mike was even more unstable. Also, why didn't her mother tell her step-father that she finally knew where Mary Ann was? Why did she leave him in the dark?
Review of Something Wild
