the movie open with charlie ( jeff daniel ) and a business man just finish his lunch in a neighborhood deli . it appear he doesn not have enough cash to cover the check . instead of reach for his plastic and he furtively glance around to see if the coast be clear and duck out of the place without pay . unbeknownst to charlie and lulu ( melanie griffith ) have be observe him from the other side of the deli . lulu be deck out in what pass for cool back in the 1980 with a brunette page boy cut . she follow him out to let him know that she saw what he do . he try to deny it but can not escape her accusation . think he in it and charlie be surprise when lulu say she doesn not work for the deli and then offer him a ride back to work . when she head in the opposite direction and thus begin their cavorting across the middle atlantic seaboard . be suppose to get titillate a thoroughly modern lulu put straight laced charlie into humiliate situation . it all right when the two consenting adult get a little kinky in a motel room but off put when they wriggle out of pay the check at a family style restaurant . steal the labor from hard work people be not my idea of wild . charlie be a jerk . lulu be a loony jerk . she start to pass off charlie a her husband . first to her mom ( who blithely tolerate the charade ) and then at her conveniently time 10 year high school reunion ( an event use later by another too cool for it own good movie grosse pointe blank ) . the marriage come a a surprise to lulu real husband ( ray liotta ) who just be recently release from prison for armed robbery . ray give the two a welcome comeuppance and show them how nasty crime really be . i can not add any irony by write that i first watch this by sneak in the movie theater . no and i do not do that sort of thing . i tap it off of cable tv and assure you i view it strictly in the privacy of my own home . so i get to think why i tap it when i do not like it very much and conclude that 20 year ago i be on a reggae kick and the soundtrack of something wild do prominently feature reggae . the closing credit start with the treat of sister carol perform her version of wild thing .