Lombardo and the girls is never spelled out completely to the audience. Notably, this scene reveals that the rape accusations may have been true all along, but the timeline of the relationship between Mr. The three meet in a seedy hotel room, drink champagne, and have a threesome. He planned the scheme to get millions of dollars from Kelly’s mother, which he has promised the girls will be divided three ways.
It is then revealed that Sam Lombardo is actually the mastermind of a conspiracy with both Kelly and Suzy. Public perception of Lombardo skyrockets, as not only is the attractive former athlete still the “Educator of the Year,” he is now a wounded survivor of false rape accusations and newly wealthy as a result of the settlement. Detective Perez (Daphne Rubin-Vega) listens attentively as Sam Lombardo throws suspicion onto Kelly Van Ryan by saying she was “sexually confused” and had relationships with women before. In a scene that takes place in Lombardo’s hotel room near the end of the movie, it is implied that Detective Perez’s deference to Lombardo was caused by her attraction to him, feelings which Lombardo pretends to return. The detective pushes back against her colleagues and says she doesn’t even want to question Lombardo’s other students or neighbors because then he will be associated with claims of impropriety. Matt Dillon as high-school guidance counselor Sam Lombardo.ĭuring the police investigation into Sam Lombardo, it is only the female detective, Perez, who says she suspects Kelly is making up the details of her rape and asks for her to be subjected to a polygraph test. The case is dismissed, and Kelly’s mother pays Lombardo $8.5 million to keep Kelly out of jail, as her daughter committed perjury.
The case goes to trial, and in a dramatic courtroom moment, the whole thing is revealed to be a revenge plot: Kelly wanted to get back at Lombardo for having an affair with her mother, and Suzie was angry he did not bail her out of jail when she was arrested for a drug charge. The students are wealthy Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards) and poor “swamp girl” Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell). The basic plot of Wild Things ( warning: spoilers ahead) is about a high-school guidance counselor named Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon), who is so well-regarded in his wealthy Florida community that he was just voted “Educator of the Year.” The community is shocked when two of his 18-year-old students come forward to say that Mr. Illicit sex, greed, betrayal, and revenge are major themes. The dark plot spins the viewer ’round and ’round as crimes are committed and hidden motives revealed. Backstabbers never saw release.Wild Things(1998) is the kind of neo-noir erotic thriller the 90s were known for. Although Backstabbers would have reportedly reunited members of the cast and crew of Wild Things, it would not have been a sequel.
In February 2006, it was reported that Neve Campbell and Denise Richards would appear in Backstabbers, and producers were trying to get more of the original film's cast to star as well. A dark gray cell indicates the character was not in the film.Īdditional crew and production details Crew/Detail.A murdered millionaire's son finds himself tangled up in a game of seduction and murder after a raunchy night with three beautiful women.Ĭast and crew Principal cast
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