Wild at Heart

Theatrical Release Date: 1990 08 17 (USA)

UPC: 027616914606

Studio: MGM

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children]

Summary: Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie Wild at Heart. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern belle named Marietta (Diane Ladd, Dern's real-life mother). Just after Sailor is released from prison, where he was jailed for brutally killing one of Marietta's thugs, he and Lula take off on a wild cross-country trip, pursued by his parole officer, her mother, criminals, bounty hunters, and detectives. Along the way, Sailor and Lula have a lot of sex, share their pasts, share their respective obsessions for Elvis and The Wizard of Oz, and meet a lot of bizarre characters, including a seedy ex-marine (Willem Dafoe) who persuades Sailor to participate in a bank robbery. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Category: Thriller

Awards: Best Supporting Actress – null Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Palme d'Or – Cannes Film Festival Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Independent Spirit Awards Best Cinematography – Independent Spirit Awards Best Supporting Actor – Independent Spirit Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: ccStunning new transfer supervised by David Lynch, with upgraded picture and sound
"Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart" featurette
"Dell's Lunch Counter" extended interviews
Sailor & Lula image gallery
"Specific Spontaneity: Focus on David Lynch" featurette
"David Lynch on the DVD Process"
Original making-of featurette
Four TV spots
Original theatrical trailer

Wild at Heart

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 12/07/2004

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 124 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Main Title
2. Killing for Marietta
3. No Way in Hell
4. Thinkin' About Sex
5. "Hire Me a Hit Man"
6. Moms Who Love Too Much
7. Honor on the Dance Floor
8. Smoking in Bed
9. Broken Parole
10. The Hit Man's Condition
11. Two Silver Dollars
12. New Orleans Nights
13. Hotter 'N Georgia Asphalt
14. A Story With a Lesson
15. Bad News in Person...
16. ...And on the Radio
17. Sailor's Story
18. One Bad Accident
19. Gone Buffalo Huntin'
20. Big Tuna, Texas
21. Strange Strangers Camp
22. Lula Can't Say It
23. "You Want Bobby Peru"
24. Beer, Guns & Easy Money
25. ...And Weird on Top
26. Something Might Happen
27. The Dummy Holdup
28. In Deep Trouble
29. Sailor's Love Child
30. No Good No More
31. The Road to Love
32. Love Me Tender/Credits

Keith Phipps

Appearing at the height of the director's popularity, thanks to the inescapable, if short-lived, Twin Peaks phenomenon, Wild at Heart is also the most stereotypically Lynchian of David Lynch's films, filled with striking visuals, surreal asides, pop-culture references, quirky characters, and oblique commentary on American life. As such, it will leave some viewers thrilled, others scratching their heads in annoyance. The open structure of the road film allows Lynch to indulge his most freewheeling instincts, and the results might be predictably mixed, but they're also frequently thrilling. If individual scenes themselves feel loosely connected, Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern help hold the enterprise together by lending surprising poignancy to what could have been fairly cartoonish characters. Though not without its moments of unevenness, cumulatively, it feels like the perfect contemporary picaresque for the fast-food era. ~ Keith Phipps, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Nicholas Love  Actor 
Pruitt Taylor Vince  Actor 
Shawne Rowe  Actor 
Peter Bromilow  Actor 
Sherilyn Fenn  Actor 
Albert Popwell  Actor 
Koko Taylor  Actor 
Ed Wright  Actor 
Frank Collison  Actor 
Sheryl Lee  Actor 
Tracey Walter  Actor 
William Morgan Sheppard  Actor 
Bob Terhune  Actor 
Daniel Quinn  Actor 
Cage S. Johnson  Actor 
Darrell Zwerling  Actor 
Frances Bay  Actor 
Jack Jozefson  Actor 
Angelo Badalamenti  Composer (Music Score) 
Mark Frost  Screenwriter 
David Lynch  Director 
David Lynch  Screenwriter 
Sigurjon Sighvatsson  Producer 
Michael Kuhn  Executive Producer 
Nicolas Cage  Actor 
Laura Dern  Actor 
Diane Ladd  Actor 
Willem Dafoe  Actor 
Isabella Rossellini  Actor 
Harry Dean Stanton  Actor 
Crispin Glover  Actor 
Grace Zabriskie  Actor 
J.E. Freeman  Actor 
Calvin Lockhart  Actor 
David Patrick Kelly  Actor 
Bellina Logan  Actor 
Glenn Walker Harris, Jr.  Actor 
Gregg G. Dandridge  Actor 
Freddie Jones  Actor 
Charlie Spradling  Actor 
Eddie Dixon  Actor 
Marvin Kaplan  Actor 
Brent Fraser  Actor 
John Lurie  Actor 
Jack Nance  Actor 
Tommy G. Kendrick  Actor 
Scott Coffey  Actor 

Country: USA