Wild At Heart Synopsis & Summary

Synopsis

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. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide

Movie Info

Starring:
Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Isabella Rossellini
Theatrical Release Date:
08/14/1990
DVD Release Date:
12/07/2004
Rating:
R
Run Time:
125 min.
Distributor(s):
Samuel Goldwyn Company
Production Co.:
Polygram, Propaganda, Samuel Goldwyn Company
Director(s):
David Lynch
Genre(s):
Drama, Comedy, Action
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:
Southern-belle, bank-robbery, betrayal, danger, double-cross, ex-convict, forbidden-love, mother, on-the-road, on-the-run, rebel
Country of Origin:
USA (08-17-1990)
Language:
English
Status:
DVD

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