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Plot

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
Status:
In Theaters
Distributor(s):
Samuel Goldwyn Company
Director(s):
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
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