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Wild at Heart
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Barry Gifford (novel)
David Lynch (screenplay)
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Release Date:
17 August 1990 (USA) more
Plot:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor. full summary | full synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations more
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(36 articles)
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This whole world is Wild at Heart and crazy on top more (159 total)

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David Lynch's Wild at Heart (USA) (complete title)
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124 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Several cast members were culled from David Lynch's then-active TV series, "Twin Peaks" (1990), which he temporarily left to make this film. Sherilyn Fenn, Grace Zabriskie, David Patrick Kelly, Sheryl Lee and Jack Nance were all either regular or recurring characters on the series. more
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Continuity: When they are in bed - he has a shirt on in one shot, the other one it's off, and then on again. more
Quotes:
Lula: Cheez Louise! Sailor, baby, you're really somethin'! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in O Homem do Ano (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Blue Spanish Sky more

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This whole world is Wild at Heart and crazy on top, 29 September 1999
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Author: Afracious from England

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.

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