Wild at Heart
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Template:Infobox Movie Wild at Heart is a 1990 film directed by David Lynch. It is based on the novel by Barry Gifford.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, and Willem Dafoe, the film mixes bizarre almost supernatural events and off-kilter violence making it an atypical road movie which stands all the usual clichés of the genre on their head. It is an unusual homage to the Wizard of Oz.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Plot summary
Lula Pace Fortune's psychopathic mother Marietta Fortune goes crazy at the thought of Lula bring with Sailor Ripley, who got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However Marietta hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together...until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen.
Main cast
- Nicholas Cage - Sailor Ripley
- Laura Dern - Lula Pace Fortune
- Willem Dafoe - Bobby Peru
- Diane Ladd - Marietta Fortune
- Crispin Glover - Cousin Dell
- Isabella Rossellini - Perdita Durango
- Harry Dean Stanton - Johnnie Farragut
- Sherilyn Fenn - Girl in accident
External links
- Wild at Heart (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:54604) at All Movie Guide
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- Screenplay (http://www.un-official.com/wildatheart.txt)
- Short description, quotes, clips (http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wildatheart.htm)