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Wild at Heart (1990)

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Reviews Counted:42

Fresh:27

Rotten:15

Average Rating:5.9/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: 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)... 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-defense--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. [More]

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nance, Sherilyn Fenn, Calvin Lockhart, Grace Zabriskie, Marvin Kaplan, W. Morgan Sheppard, David Patrick Kelly, Freddie Jones, John Lurie, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Sheryl Lee, Frances Bay, Brent Fraser

Director: David Lynch

Director: David Lynch
Screenwriter: David Lynch
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti

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Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
10/18/08
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek
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The result's mostly empty at heart and hollow on top.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
09/17/08
Ali Catterall
Ali Catterall
Channel 4 Film

Even the title is a letdown, somehow.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
09/17/08
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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This winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or is a lunatic road movie seething with the same dark intensity that animates director Lynch's earlier work.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/17/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/17/08
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety
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Barry Gifford's beautifully written picaresque novel about southern lovers on the run, though essentially literary, could have worked as a movie had David Lynch shown some fidelity to the realistic context.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
09/17/08
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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No review available.

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12/02/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

It's not a pleasant film by any definition, and it's not remotely for everyone, but it's true to Lynch's vision.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

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12/26/06
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Lynch's paean to Wizard of Oz divided critics when it premeiered at Cannes, and it never found an audience beyond the helmer's fans who enjoyed the fable's couple (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) taking their own Yellow Brick Road in search of the wizard

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
12/20/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

Not for the weak of heart, one of the best Lynchian outings with some fantastically memorable dialogue.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
12/06/05
Kenny Matheson
Kenny Matheson
Empire Magazine

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07/01/05
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Wild at Heart feels belabored, and it lacks the resonance and power with which the best, most unfiltered passages of Lynch’s work vibrate.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
06/12/05
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
Filmcritic.com

David Lynch does it again.....a hot, heavy, hellish movie

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03/11/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Film Threat

When [Lynch is] on track, though, the film shines with a gaudy beauty.

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01/15/05
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

The film takes its protagonists’ twisted, perverse subconscious as its reality: a world of circus freak hitmen, trailer trash Wicked Witches, and, well, Crispin Glover.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
01/15/05
Leo Goldsmith
Leo Goldsmith
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

David Lynch at his cracked best

Full Review Source: Fantastica Daily | comment Comment
12/08/04
Staci Layne Wilson
Staci Layne Wilson
Fantastica Daily

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11/19/04
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

A strange and compelling road movie as imagined by writer and director David Lynch.

Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | comment Comment
08/30/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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