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Reviews: 197 user | 105 critic | 18 from Metacritic.com Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor. Director:David Lynch |
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| Willem Dafoe | ... | ||
| J.E. Freeman | ... | ||
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Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California. However their mother 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. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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17 August 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
David Lynch's Wild at Heart See more »Box Office
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Written by Krzysztof Penderecki
Performed by Chorus and Filharmonia Narodowa (as Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic,
Warsaw)
Published by European American Music
Distribution Company - Sole U.S. and Canadian Agent for B. Schott's Soehen (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Philips
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During filming, Laura Dern passed out when David Lynch asked her to smoke four cigarettes at once in one deep inhalation. When she came to, she saw a worried Lynch standing above her asking: "Tidbit! Are you alright?" See more »Goofs
When Sailor leaves Lula, and Lula cries out "SAILOR!!!" in close-up, the image is reversed. Lula's hair is normally "waved" to her left, but in this shot, her hair is "waved" to her right. See more »Crazy Credits
The ending credits play over footage of Sailor singing "Love Me Tender" to Lula, rather than a black screen. See more »Soundtracks
KosmogoniaWritten by Krzysztof Penderecki
Performed by Chorus and Filharmonia Narodowa (as Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic,
Warsaw)
Published by European American Music
Distribution Company - Sole U.S. and Canadian Agent for B. Schott's Soehen (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Philips
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Wild at Heart begins with an arresting scene of bloody violence by one of the two lead characters, Sailor Ripley, and this immediately grabs our attention. After this he hooks up with his lover, Lula, who he fiercely protects, and goes on a bizarre road trip into the deep south of the states, while avoiding Lula's mother, played with passion by a deservedly Oscar-nominated Diane Ladd, who has an obsessive hatred for Sailor. They meet an assortment of weird people, especially Bobby Peru, and also Perdita Durango, who has appeared recently in a film with her name as the title, also written by Barry Gifford. It is classic David Lynch, with a homage type theme to the Wizard of Oz. It has the sensuality and eroticism later seen in Lost Highway, the violence and gore, the head sequence after the bank robbery being graphic, and a general uneasiness throughout. But it is a darkly humorous and transfixing piece.