Today, I have brought a 1998 crime drama mystery film called, “Wild Things.”
This film has so many plot twists that you will lose your mind by the end of the film.
Just when you think that you can’t be surprised anymore, you will find another plot twist.
To know what happens, watch till the end.
Sam Lombardo, a guidance counsellor from Blue Bay High School, is giving a speech to his
students on “date rape” and “sexual harassment.”
He has also invited Detectives Duquette and Perez from Blue Bay Police Department to guide
the students.
Sam is a very popular guy, as he is both handsome and charming.
All the girls in the school are attracted to Sam and always try to impress him.
Kelly Van Ryan, one of the students and daughter of a wealthy family, also has a crush on Sam.
She approaches him and asks him to give her a lift home.
On their way, Sam also offers lift to Suzie Toller, a poor outcast, but she refuses, as
she doesn’t get along with Kelly.
When Sam drops Kelly home, even Kelly’s mother flirts with Sam and asks him to come
in, but Sam politely refuses.
One day, Kelly and her friend arrive at Sam’s house and offer to wash his Jeep.
After cleaning the Jeep, Kelly directs her friend to leave, so that she can be alone
with Sam.
She then enters his house, completely soaked in water, to seduce Sam.
Sometime later, Kelly comes out of Sam’s house and runs to her home.
Soon after reaching home, Kelly starts crying and reveals to her mother that she was raped
by Sam.
Kelly’s mother gets furious after hearing this and approaches the detectives to file
a case against Sam.
Kelly gives her confession to the detectives and describes to them how Sam raped her.
After listening to her statement, Detective Perez theorizes that Kelly is making things
up, as there is no physical evidence to prove that she was raped.
But Detective Duquette believes her statement, as he knows that Sam is a womanizer.
One day, one of Sam’s colleagues approaches Sam and informs him that the board is planning
to suspend him until he is cleared of the rape charges.
So he suggests Sam to hire a lawyer to clear his name as soon as possible.
So he approaches lawyer Kenneth Bowden to defend him.
After listening to his side of the story, Kenneth decides to defend him in court.
Everyone in the city now knows about Sam and Kelly, because of which his reputation is
badly damaged.
Even his girlfriend breaks up with him after learning about the accusation.
One day, Detectives Duquette and Perez arrive at Suzie’s house after she called them.
Suzie reveals to them that one year ago, she too was raped by Sam at her trailer.
Soon after this, Sam gets arrested by the detectives.
On the day of trial, Kelly again repeats her confession of how Sam raped her.
She tearfully says that she told Sam to stop, but he didn’t.
On the 2nd day of the trial, Suzie also repeats her confession of how Sam raped her.
But Kenneth proves Sam’s innocence by saying that even after Sam raped Suzie, she kept
contacting him for bailing her out of jail for several crimes.
But one day, Sam failed to bail her out of jail on a minor drug charge.
After some pressure from Kenneth, Suzie finally reveals that Sam never raped her or Kelly.
They just wanted to get revenge on him: Suzie for not bailing her out, and Kelly for his
affair with her mother.
Soon after hearing Suzie’s statement, Sam is freed from the rape charges.
Kenneth tells Sam that Kelly’s mother will now try to negotiate with him for defaming
him.
So after consulting their lawyers, Sam and Kelly’s mother agree on a settlement price
of 8.5 million dollars for defaming Sam.
Soon after getting the money, Sam decides to move out and takes his belongings from
his office.
After getting his things, he goes to a motel to spend the night.
There he sees Kelly and Suzie waiting for him.
It turns out that the three of them were accomplices who used the trial to get money from Kelly’s
mother.
On top of that, the three of them are in love and spend the night drinking and mating.
Meanwhile, Detective Duquette feels something is wrong and suspects that this was pre-planned
by the trio, because Kelly cannot get the money until her mother dies, and Sam and Suzie
needed money for all their debts.
So they decided to scam Kelly’s mother and get her money.
So Detective Duquette starts investigating the case.
He approaches Kelly and tries to intimidate her by saying that the three of them cannot
live long together, and sooner or later, one of them is going to have a problem.
But Kelly tells him to stay away from her and leaves.
Detective Duquette then goes to meet Suzie and tells her that she is being used by Sam
and Kelly.
He also reveals that Sam has moved all his money to a foreign account and has taken a
sailboat on lease.
He then tries to intimidate Suzie by saying that Sam and Kelly are not going to share
money with her.
Suzie panics and tries calling Sam, but he doesn’t respond.
So she goes to meet Kelly.
Detective Duquette follows her and listens to their conversation from some distance.
Sam calls Kelly and tells her to calm Suzie down, as she can get them all arrested.
But Suzie is completely sure that she is going to be left out of the settlement money.
After some arguing, they end up fighting and Kelly tries to kill Suzie by drowning her.
But Kelly changes her mind and passionately kisses Suzie.
Unbeknownst to them, Detective Duquette is recording their every action.
The next day, Detective Duquette shows the video recording to his boss, but instead of
allowing him to continue investigating, he orders Detective Duquette to stay away from
Sam, Kelly, and Suzie.
One night, Kelly and Suzie drive to the beach.
Sometime later, Sam also comes there and tells Kelly to get a blanket from her mother’s
car.
While she is away, Sam apparently kills Suzie.
After wrapping Suzie’s body in plastic, Sam and Kelly drive to the swamp to dispose
of Suzie’s body.
The next day, Detectives Duquette and Perez learn about Suzie’s disappearance and begin
a search to find her.
Detective Duquette is now sure about his theory and goes to the beach to find any clue about
Suzie’s disappearance.
There he finds bloodstains on a boat, along with some teeth.
Sometime later, the other officers come to the scene and begin inspecting the beach.
Detective Perez tells Detective Duquette that Suzie’s car is found at a bus terminal.
Detective Duquette is now sure that something might have happened to Suzie and wants to
investigate further, but their boss stops him and orders him to drop the case.
But Detective Duquette wants to find out the truth, so he asks Detective Perez to keep
an eye on Sam.
Later that night, Kelly calls Sam and tells him that she is scared and doesn’t want
to get arrested.
But Sam assures her that nothing will happen to her and directs her to stay at home until
they leave for good.
Afterwards, Sam goes to see Detective Perez, who is spying on him.
She tells Sam about Suzie’s disappearance and that he has something to do with it according
to Detective Duquette.
So Sam invites Detective Perez to his room and shows her Kelly’s school files, according
to which, Kelly is an unstable, sexually confused girl.
Sam tells her that Kelly was having an affair with Suzie, but when things didn’t work
out for them, they may have turned against each other.
Sam then seduces Detective Perez and compels her to let him go.
She then calls Detective Duquette and tells him that Sam is innocent.
Frustrated, Detective Duquette goes to Kelly’s house to talk to Kelly, who is scared and
upset.
Soon after he enters her room, Kelly attacks him.
Three gunshots are heard, after which Ray leaves the room and collapses.
Later, Detective Duquette tells the officers that Kelly first fired at him, so he had to
return fire and kill Kelly in self-defence.
Although no charges are filed against him, he is however dismissed from the force for
disobeying orders.
After a few days, Sam goes to an island to stay low.
He returns to his room and finds Duquette showering inside.
It turns out that he and Sam were working together from the beginning.
Sam is displeased that Duquette killed Kelly, as he should have just framed her for Suzie’s
death.
But Duquette says that they have fewer loose ends now and don’t have to share the money
with anyone else.
Sam tells Duquette that the money is going to be transferred in two working days.
So he invites Duquette to go sailing with him.
The next day, Duquette and Sam go sailing on Sam’s sailboat.
When Duquette is distracted, Sam steers the boat, causing Duquette to fall into the ocean.
But he somehow manages to get back on the boat and attacks Sam, but gets shot by a very
much alive Suzie.
She shoots Duquette again, who then falls into the ocean and drowns to his death.
Meanwhile, Detective Perez goes to meet Suzie’s grandmother and asks her what she knows about
Duquette.
Suzie’s grandmother reveals that Duquette had an affair with a girl at the glades.
One night, Duquette killed a boy named Davy because he had a crush on Duquette’s girlfriend.
As Suzie saw the incident, Duquette got her arrested to silence her.
Meanwhile, Suzie hands Sam a drink to celebrate Duquette’s death.
Although Sam hesitates at first, he eventually drinks his drink.
But it turns out that Suzie has poisoned Sam’s drink and knocks him overboard, so his body
will not be found.
Meanwhile, Suzie’s grandmother tells Detective Perez about Kelly’s grandfather, who once
got a woman pregnant.
Soon after giving birth to a baby girl, the woman died in a year.
Suzie’s grandmother adopted the baby girl, who is none other than Suzie.
It turns out that Suzie and Kelly’s mother are half-sisters, and that Kelly is actually
the niece of Suzie.
It turns out that Suzie is the ultimate mastermind of the plot, who then sails off into the sunset
alone.
In the flashback, Kelly and Sam had an affair when Sam was the guidance counsellor of Blue
Bay High School.
One day, Suzie went to see Sam at his office and showed him the pictures of him mating
with Kelly.
She then blackmailed Sam to execute her plan.
She was the one who set up the first meeting between Sam and Duquette.
At the beach, she used a pair of pliers to pull a tooth out of her own jaw.
When Duquette went to see Kelly, it was he, who shot Kelly dead to get rid of loose ends.
At the end of the film, Kenneth goes to meet Suzie and hands her a briefcase full of cash,
along with a check for millions of dollars.
It turns out that he was working with Suzie from the beginning and takes his share of
the money.
After grabbing the briefcase, Suzie leaves.
So this was the story of “Wild Things.”
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