Wild at Heart

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Wild at Heart
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R,2hrs 5min
Released:
January 1, 1990
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MGM
Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis
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Starting with the outrageous and building from there, he ignites a slight love-on-the-run novel, creating a bonfire of a movie that confirms his reputation as the most exciting and innovative filmmaker of his generation. Full Review
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52
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Featured Cast
Sailor Ripley
Lula Pace Fortune
Marietta Fortune
Bobby Peru
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