Synopsis
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageSailor Ripley
- Laura DernLula Fortune
- Willem DafoeBobby Peru
- J.E. FreemanMarcelles Santos
- Crispin GloverDell
- Diane LaddMarietta Fortune
- Calvin LockhartReggie
- Isabella RosselliniPerdita Durango
- Harry Dean StantonJohnnie Farragut
- Grace ZabriskieJuana Durango
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Variety
Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic, David Lynch's Wild at Heart [based on the novel by Barry Gifford] is a rollercoaster ride to redemption through an American gothic heart of darkness. - 88
Chicago Tribune
And yet there is enough of a core of sincerity to turn even the most preposterous moments-such as the film's dream-sequence finale-into something moving and true: You buy the feelings, even as the situations degenerate into the ludicrous and absurd. [17 Aug 1990, Friday, p.C] - 78
Austin Chronicle
David Lynch doesn't tell stories as much as he shows hallucinations. Wierd, wild, excessive, obsessive, idiosyncratic visions. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
There is something repulsive and manipulative about it, and even its best scenes have the flavor of a kid in the school yard, trying to show you pictures you don't feel like looking at. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
As a story, Wild at Heart is even less coherent than “Blue Velvet,'' to the point where whole characters and subplots disappear into a murky haze at the end. [17 Aug 1990, Arts, p.11] - 50
TV Guide Magazine
A wacky, occasionally inventive road movie that fails to display the vision or the dark intensity of director Lynch's earlier work. - 50
Washington Post
The movie's initial intensity is so great, it consumes itself. By the time we reach the final scene, which is clearly supposed to exude glorious rapture between offbeat lovers Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, it has all the warming effect of cold ash. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
A lurid hodgepodge of the ''subversive'' and the secondhand, the movie lacks the primal pop pleasures of Lynch's best work.
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