Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 08/17/1990(USA)
Release Date: 12/07/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DD1/DDS
Run Time: 124 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: MGM
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
