**SPOILERS** After hitting a wolf, the first one seen in the wild in the state of Vermont since 1900, with his car on his way driving home to New York City publishing house vice president a concerned Will Randell, Jack Nicholson, tries to see what he could do to help the injured canine. All of a sudden the what at first look like a dead wolf came alive and viciously bit Will on his right hand.
It's later at his job that Will begins to act and even look a bit strange with what is obviously the results of the wolf bite he received. Being ultra sensitive to smells and sounds with his eyesight now improved to a super sharp 20/10 vision the mild mannered Will also becomes violently aggressive, like the alpha-wolf who bit him, in what he wants on and off the job. This all doesn't go too well with Will's co-worker and rival for his job as vice president of his book publishing firm Stewart Swinton, James Spader. Swinton has for some time tried to get Will's job by working behind his back in getting his boss Raymond Alden, Christopher Plumer, to transfer him out to the firms Eastern European-a dead end job- branch! Beside that Swinton is also having an affair with Will's cheating wife Charlotte, Kate Nellign, who's looking to improve her lifestyle by hooking with the the young and aggressive up and coming star of firm.
Will who was more or less willing to go along with him being transfered to Eastern Europe now becomes more then ever determined to not only stay on his job in NYC but get back at both Swinton and his boss Raymond Alder for trying to screw him out of it!
Making a shambles of Alder and Swinton's plans for him Will also gets romantically involved with Alden's strong willed and beautiful daughter Laura, Michelle Pfeiffer, who had never gave him as much as a second look. It's in Will's not being intimidated by her it's my way or the highway father that strangely attracts Laura to him as well as his new found free spirit and love for the great outdoors. It's also Will's confrontation with that back-stabbing yuppie Swinton, in the firms mans washroom, that has Swinton soon take up the same wolf-like characteristics that he has. This leads to Swinton changing for the wimpish and gutless conniver that he is to a man of animal-like strength and murderous ferocity that he's soon to become. This sudden change in Swinton leads to the inevitable life and death confrontation that he has with Will at the climax of the film "Wolf".
***SPOILER ALERT*** In "Wolf" the wolfish Jack Nicholson does one of the best interpretation of a wolf-man since Lon Cheney Jr did back in 1941. In fact Nicholson does it with a fraction of the makeup-job, as well as with no computer-enhanced special effects that Cheney did it with in his staring in the classic horror film of the 1940's "the Wolfman". In the end not only Will but Laura give up on civilization and end up in the wilds of upper New York State that now seem more at home to them then where they used to reside: The Big Apple. As for Swinton his reckless attempt to both murder Will and rape Laura backfired on him with him making it possible, by his vicious attack on Laura, for the two to get out of town and live together in the wilds that they now call home.
It's later at his job that Will begins to act and even look a bit strange with what is obviously the results of the wolf bite he received. Being ultra sensitive to smells and sounds with his eyesight now improved to a super sharp 20/10 vision the mild mannered Will also becomes violently aggressive, like the alpha-wolf who bit him, in what he wants on and off the job. This all doesn't go too well with Will's co-worker and rival for his job as vice president of his book publishing firm Stewart Swinton, James Spader. Swinton has for some time tried to get Will's job by working behind his back in getting his boss Raymond Alden, Christopher Plumer, to transfer him out to the firms Eastern European-a dead end job- branch! Beside that Swinton is also having an affair with Will's cheating wife Charlotte, Kate Nellign, who's looking to improve her lifestyle by hooking with the the young and aggressive up and coming star of firm.
Will who was more or less willing to go along with him being transfered to Eastern Europe now becomes more then ever determined to not only stay on his job in NYC but get back at both Swinton and his boss Raymond Alder for trying to screw him out of it!
Making a shambles of Alder and Swinton's plans for him Will also gets romantically involved with Alden's strong willed and beautiful daughter Laura, Michelle Pfeiffer, who had never gave him as much as a second look. It's in Will's not being intimidated by her it's my way or the highway father that strangely attracts Laura to him as well as his new found free spirit and love for the great outdoors. It's also Will's confrontation with that back-stabbing yuppie Swinton, in the firms mans washroom, that has Swinton soon take up the same wolf-like characteristics that he has. This leads to Swinton changing for the wimpish and gutless conniver that he is to a man of animal-like strength and murderous ferocity that he's soon to become. This sudden change in Swinton leads to the inevitable life and death confrontation that he has with Will at the climax of the film "Wolf".
***SPOILER ALERT*** In "Wolf" the wolfish Jack Nicholson does one of the best interpretation of a wolf-man since Lon Cheney Jr did back in 1941. In fact Nicholson does it with a fraction of the makeup-job, as well as with no computer-enhanced special effects that Cheney did it with in his staring in the classic horror film of the 1940's "the Wolfman". In the end not only Will but Laura give up on civilization and end up in the wilds of upper New York State that now seem more at home to them then where they used to reside: The Big Apple. As for Swinton his reckless attempt to both murder Will and rape Laura backfired on him with him making it possible, by his vicious attack on Laura, for the two to get out of town and live together in the wilds that they now call home.