Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie Wild at Heart. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern belle named Marietta (Diane Ladd, Dern's real-life mother). Just after Sailor is released from prison, where he was jailed for brutally killing one of Marietta's thugs, he and Lula take off on a wild cross-country trip, pursued by his parole officer, her mother, criminals, bounty hunters, and detectives. Along the way, Sailor and Lula have a lot of sex, share their pasts, share their respective obsessions for Elvis and The Wizard of Oz, and meet a lot of bizarre characters, including a seedy ex-marine (Willem Dafoe) who persuades Sailor to participate in a bank robbery.
- MPAA Rating: R
- Genre(s): Drama,Comedy,Action
- Run Time: 125min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 08/14/1990
- DVD Release Date: 12/07/2004
- Distributor(s): Samuel Goldwyn Company
- Director(s):
David Lynch
- Starring:
Nicolas Cage
,
Laura Dern
,
Diane Ladd
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Isabella Rossellini
- Themes: One Last Heist,Lovers on the Lam,Dangerous Attraction,Bounty Hunters,Bank Robbery,Out For Revenge
- Tone: Bleak,Disturbing,Hallucinatory,Lurid,Sexual,Stylized
- Keywords:
betrayal, double-cross, ex-convict, mother, Southern-belle, bank-robbery, danger, forbidden-love, on-the-road, on-the-run, rebel
- Country of Origin: USA (08-17-1990)
- Language: English
