yet another movie id
December 21, 2009 10:18 AM   Subscribe

Movie-identification-filter: A man and a woman are in a motel room, they're getting sexy on the bed, the woman ties/handcuffs the man's hands to the bed, takes off her top, dangles her breasts over his face, then leaves him there and drives off with his car. Probably came out in the late 80s or early 90s.

This is probably a crappy movie. My dad was watching it, got to this scene and said something like "aaaaaaalllllright, that's enough of this bullshit" and turned it off. I asked him what movie it was but he doesn't remember.
posted by beerbajay to Media & Arts (16 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Basic Instinct?
posted by melodykramer at 10:20 AM on December 21, 2009


Best answer: Something Wild maybe? I remember a scene sort of like that, but I don't recall if she steals his car. It's been a while (great movie, though)
posted by brundlefly at 10:22 AM on December 21, 2009 [1 favorite]


Many possibilities. The first that came to mind is Romeo is Bleeding.
posted by Babblesort at 10:23 AM on December 21, 2009


I was thinking Something Wild, too.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 10:23 AM on December 21, 2009


Definitely Something Wild. The woman has a short, black bob hairstyle and lots of wrist cuffs and bangles, right? It's actually a really good movie, with a great David Byrne soundtrack.

I can't remember if she steals his car right then and there, but there is repeated theft and chicanery, as well as lots of singing in the convertible with some lovely hitchhikers.
posted by maudlin at 10:33 AM on December 21, 2009


The scene from Something Wild (writhing included, probably not safe for many offices, but stops short of rack exposure).
posted by maudlin at 10:36 AM on December 21, 2009 [2 favorites]


Chasers? A very crappy movie with a scene just like that.
posted by otio at 10:44 AM on December 21, 2009


Definitely, definitely Something Wild.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 10:49 AM on December 21, 2009


Also a scene from the Preacher comic books.
posted by GJSchaller at 11:56 AM on December 21, 2009


I don't remember Melanie Griffith stealing the car in Something Wild, did she? Maybe you were thinking of Seinfeld.
posted by any major dude at 12:40 PM on December 21, 2009


I don't remember that either. Definitely, Melanie Griffith tied up Jeff Daniels, when her character was still wearing her black wig, before they met up with Ray.
posted by Rash at 1:24 PM on December 21, 2009


Between Google and my memory of SW: it's her convertible (possibly stolen), not his car, and IIRC, while there are some heists, and the car is driven into the ditch in front of the motel before the handcuffs scene, he doesn't have a car to steal. They end up buying another car from John Waters.

So unless the OP has conflated some screeching-tires car scene earlier in the movie with the motel scene, what he's remembering isn't Something Wild.

But it's still a really good movie.
posted by maudlin at 1:34 PM on December 21, 2009


Its Chasers for sure. It's like The Last Detail but with Tom Berenger. And terrible.
posted by MPnonot3 at 1:44 PM on December 21, 2009


Something Wild
posted by KokuRyu at 2:29 PM on December 21, 2009


I am in that movie. It was filmed near Tallahassee, Fl while I was a student at Florida State University. A lot of the Theater department was extras in that film.

Looking for me? There is a scene where MG walks into a Jiffy Mart. The clerk behind the counter is wearing a red Badger tshirt (the Mike Baron comic book character). That's me a loooong time ago...
posted by wittgenstein at 6:08 PM on December 21, 2009 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Yep, Something Wild. Not Chasers. I conflated the scene of her leaving Daniels in the restaurant with her stealing his car. Well done, askme.
posted by beerbajay at 2:58 PM on December 26, 2009


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