Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart is a 1990 American black comedy romantic crime drama thriller film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, and Harry Dean Stanton, the film follows Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune, a young couple who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the criminals she hires to kill Sailor.
Plot
In Cape Fear, North Carolina, lovers Lula Fortune and Sailor Ripley are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife; the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula's mother, Marietta. Upon Sailor's release 22 months later, Lula picks him up outside prison, where she hands him his snakeskin jacket. They have sex in a hotel room and go to see speed metal band Powermad. At the club, Sailor beats up a man for flirting with Lula, and then leads the band in a rendition of the Elvis Presley song "Love Me". When Lula asks why Sailor didn't sing her his favorite song, "Love Me Tender", he tells her he will only ever sing it to his future wife.
Awards
Cast
- Albert Popwell
- Calvin Lockhart
- Charlie Spradling
- Crispin Glover
- David Patrick Kelly
- Diane Ladd
- Frances Bay
- Frank Collison
- Freddie Jones
- Grace Zabriskie
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Isabella Rossellini
- J. E. Freeman
- Jack Nance
- John Lurie
- Koko Taylor
- Laura Dern
- Marvin Kaplan
- Nicolas Cage
- Peter Bromilow
- Pruitt Taylor Vince
- Scott Coffey
- Sherilyn Fenn
- Sheryl Lee
- Tracey Walter
- W. Morgan Sheppard
- Willem Dafoe