
“A wild and crazy love story.”
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Release Date: 8/17/1990
Runtime: 125 minutes
Languages: English, Spanish
Director: David Lynch
Budget: $9.5M
Revenue: $14.6M
Companies: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Propaganda Films, PolyGram Filmproduktion
Countries: United States of America, Germany
kevin2019
"Wild at Heart" quickly becomes completely incomprehensible and mired down in David Lynch's typical quagmire of self indulgence which successfully aggravates, alienates and frustrates mainstream audiences just for the hell of it which is perfectly okay, but what isn't perfectly okay is when the story is abandoned even though it is still as inconclusive at the end as it was in the beginning. The problems confronting Sailor and Lula are never satisfactorily resolved and the character Johnnie Farregut actually goes completely AWOL and he is never heard from again. This is a watchable enough film in its own uniquely eccentric way, but it is far from being satisfying and the story seems to provide nothing more than an extremely loose and disposable framework upon which to hang a film that is all too easy to forget.

Nicolas Cage
Sailor

Laura Dern
Lula

Willem Dafoe
Bobby Peru

Diane Ladd
Marietta Fortune

Harry Dean Stanton
Johnnie Farragut

J.E. Freeman
Marcelles Santos

Isabella Rossellini
Perdita Durango

Grace Zabriskie
Juana Durango

Calvin Lockhart
Reggie

William Morgan Sheppard
Mr. Reindeer

Crispin Glover
Dell

Sheryl Lee
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