one night and barkeeper randy ( matt dillon ) rescue jewel ( liv tyler ) from her jealous boyfriend utah ( andrew dice clay ) . he take jewel to his home . but utah come back and want randy to open the safe at mc cool´s . suddenly a shot utah´s dead . then . . i´ll good stop here to tell the plot . that´s like to explain the story of wild thing . what i find so interesting and be the fact that the plot ( write by stan seidel and his first and his last work he die in july last year . ) be tell from 3 perspective the 3 men that fall for jewel . everybody of them see her from different eye like john goodman a the detective and who tenderly fall in love with her because of be remember of his dead wife . no wonder that the guy fall for her . liv tyler she´s a real jewel . she make the big screen shin . she play her role a if she be in a 40´s noir thriller . sweet but in the same time she be the cool vamp who walk over dead body´s and use the men for her need . and and of course and michael douglas . how could i forget him . mr. burmeister and the bingo play killer he be quite cool . but in the last 10 minute there be a little bit too much slapstick for my taste it weaken the atmosphere . that part begin when paul reiser ( a randys cousin carl ) putt on his leather dress for jewel . the ymca song do not fit so much here . . but altogether and one night at mc cool´s be a pretty cool film noir parody .