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David Lynch's 1990 Wild at Heart is an utterly random and ugly experience with pockets of startling imagery and inspired set pieces. Based on a Barry Gifford novel, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as lovers on the lam whose relationship is tested and who meet some truly dangerous wackos (including an almost-simian Willem Dafoe). Lynch's thoughts seem to be everywhere, and he expects the audience to keep up with a story that seems more a collection of avant-garde whims than a coherent vision with the intuitive brilliance of his Blue Velvet. Cage gives one of his more chaotic performances, but then he was just reading Lynch's signposts. --Tom Keogh
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In adapting Barry Gifford's colorful novel, David Lynch delivers another jolt of adrenaline to unsuspecting viewers everywhere. Wild At Heart follows the troubled romance of Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern), two lovers who struggle to remain together even when fate seems intent on keeping them apart. In this case, fate is Lula's mother, Marietta Fortune (Diane Ladd), a desperate woman who hates Sailor and will do anything to keep him away from her daughter. After Sailor is released from prison for murdering a man albeit in self-defence he and Lula embark on a sex-filled, rocking road trip, aware that they are being hunted by one of Marietta's cronies. When they pull off the road in order to hide out in a small trailer park, Sailor befriends Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe), an incredibly intense war veteran with a rotten set of teeth. Bobby convinces Sailor to help him rob a bank, much to Lula's objections (for she has discovered that she is pregnant). Sailor must decide if he wants to go straight and be there for his child or remain under Bobby's influence and risk returning to jail. Lynch's raucous film contains his trademark visual style, over-the-top dialogue, and pulsating soundtrack, creating another truly distinct picture.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Very enjoyable film that is well written, cast and acted (Willem Dafoe's performance is classic and shows Nicholas Cage's in his best role to date). Perhaps unusual by David Lynch's standards, the film is only mildy surreal with a storyline you can follow. Would recommend to anyone except parents, too weird and violent, and work colleagues who might think you're a bit odd.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It is quite sad when you type in 'Wild at Heart' you get a photo of the annoying untalented Amanda Holden. Moving swiftly on, this is a review for the (talented) David Lynch 1990 movie and not the BBC cheese-fest of the same name.
Anyhoo, I was fumbling around my dvd collection last night in a drunken state, and i reluctantly decided to play 'Wild at Heart'. I was pleased with my movie choice because 'Wild at Heart' is a stunning movie on many different levels-- Direction, soundtrack, characters, plot, sub plot, dialogue, and weirdness.
"One of these days the sun's gonna come up and burn a hole clean through the planet like a giant electrical x-ray.
Sailor: I wouldn't worry about that, Peanut. By then people'll prob'ly be drivin Buicks to the moon".
It is a road movie with the usual David Lynch surreal characteristics. The movie is about Sailor (N.Cage) and Lula (L.Dern) who are running away from Lula's lunatic mother. THis movie has some odd dialogue, a dwarf, weird characters (that dont serve any purpose) e.g. Crispin Glover (Cousin Dell)- "I'm making my lunch!"
Ha.... Crispin Glover keeps cockroaches in his underpants for some bizarre reason.
Bobby Peru is a revelation with his stumpy teeth and his dyed hair. Peru (Wm.Dafoe) is the greatest character creation in the history of motion picture (in my humble opinion). He is a disgusting, egotistical, misogynistic, violent, perverted, lunatic weirdo.
"Ya know, I sure do like a girl with nice teets like yours who talks tough and looks like she can duck like a bunny. Do you duck like that? Cause if ya do, I'll duck ya good. Like a big ol' jackrabbit bunny, jump all around that hole. Bobby Peru don't come up for air."
He is also a bank robber hwo drinks Jack Daniels - "Speaking of Jack, One eyed Jack's yearning to go a peeping in a seafood store!"
There is a happy ending --I'd like to apologise to you gentlemen for referring to you all as hoomosexuals. You taught me a valuable lesson in life.
Anyhoo, I was fumbling around my dvd collection last night in a drunken state, and i reluctantly decided to play 'Wild at Heart'. I was pleased with my movie choice because 'Wild at Heart' is a stunning movie on many different levels-- Direction, soundtrack, characters, plot, sub plot, dialogue, and weirdness.
"One of these days the sun's gonna come up and burn a hole clean through the planet like a giant electrical x-ray.
Sailor: I wouldn't worry about that, Peanut. By then people'll prob'ly be drivin Buicks to the moon".
It is a road movie with the usual David Lynch surreal characteristics. The movie is about Sailor (N.Cage) and Lula (L.Dern) who are running away from Lula's lunatic mother. THis movie has some odd dialogue, a dwarf, weird characters (that dont serve any purpose) e.g. Crispin Glover (Cousin Dell)- "I'm making my lunch!"
Ha.... Crispin Glover keeps cockroaches in his underpants for some bizarre reason.
Bobby Peru is a revelation with his stumpy teeth and his dyed hair. Peru (Wm.Dafoe) is the greatest character creation in the history of motion picture (in my humble opinion). He is a disgusting, egotistical, misogynistic, violent, perverted, lunatic weirdo.
"Ya know, I sure do like a girl with nice teets like yours who talks tough and looks like she can duck like a bunny. Do you duck like that? Cause if ya do, I'll duck ya good. Like a big ol' jackrabbit bunny, jump all around that hole. Bobby Peru don't come up for air."
He is also a bank robber hwo drinks Jack Daniels - "Speaking of Jack, One eyed Jack's yearning to go a peeping in a seafood store!"
There is a happy ending --I'd like to apologise to you gentlemen for referring to you all as hoomosexuals. You taught me a valuable lesson in life.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I saw this at the movies in 1990 and it made a big impact on a 20 year old. 20 years later some schenes arent that controversial as they were then but it is still a good road movie.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
the best film ever made.
This is my favourite film by the Lynch master who is the best film director by miles and no one has yet or will ever come close in this medium of film. Read more
Published 3 months ago by scott
Extra's are a superb package on this disc.
Nice to see a proper remastered DVD release for this Lynch classic, including lots of fab extra's!
The interviews with the cast and crew are REALLY entertaining, and Willem... Read more
The interviews with the cast and crew are REALLY entertaining, and Willem... Read more
Published 21 months ago by D. Kohen
This world is weird on top and wild at heart
Wild at heart is as lynch describes it a road and love movie that takes you on a journey along a twisted highway in the modern world. Read more
Published 22 months ago by movie maniac
Fast paced,strange and violent!
While this is not David Lynch's best movie he is still on top form and it definitly doesn't rank as his worst. Read more
Published on 7 July 2009 by Mr. A. J. Ralph
"This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top"
As always, David Lynch is on top form, and Wild at Heart is yet another stunning film added to his list. Read more
Published on 12 May 2009 by a1ex8
Wicked
There's not much plot to this 'lovers on the run' fairytale road movie but that really doesn't matter. Read more
Published on 30 April 2009 by Grant Fitzgerald
Super but superficial
As you would expect from David Lynch, this is a brilliantly crafted, visually inventive film with more memorable lines and images than most writer-directors manage in a lifetime. Read more
Published on 22 Dec 2008 by J. W. Topham
Stylish weird magic
You will know within five minutes if this movie is your taste. Nicholas Cage gives a great performance as a bad Elvis type dude, with Laura Dern as his young, hot lover. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2008 by CJ
A stark trip into the heart of the weird and not so wonderful.
It's true to say that Wild At Heart is perhaps one of David Lynch's more-flawed cinematic endeavours, with many of the scenes and indeed, the film as a whole, seeming incomplete or... Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2008 by Jonathan James Romley
dark stylish twisted road movie
early doors we are treated to a head being pummeled on marble steps to some crushing metal power chords and we know we're in good hands (the splendid mr lynch of course)... Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2008 by Alister King
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