Wild at Heart
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Date: January 01, 1990 to December 31, 1990
Dates Note: 1990
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United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: The novel by Barry Gifford
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Next Door to Darkness: The Films of David LynchDescription:
Just out of prison for manslaughter, Sailor (Nicolas Cage) breaks parole to take Lula (Laura Dern), his inseparable lover, to California. Lula’s mother, Marietta (Diane Ladd), accompanied by a private eye (Harry Dean Stanton), pursues the de facto fugitives to rescue her daring daughter from herself. In Big Tuna, Texas, a scruffy town inhabited by lowlifes, they encounter the thoroughly demented Bobby Peru (Willem Dafoe), who confirms Lula’s observation that “this whole world’s wild at heart and weird on top.” Lynch’s fantastical free-for-all helped put Sailor and Lula on the American misfit map when it won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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