![]() ![]() Willem Dafoe's wired-teeth small-time Texas criminal, Bobby Peru, is featured in a scene that will haunt viewers long after the credits roll. This skewed road trip story is blessed with a memorable supporting cast. The end result is a lovers-on-the-run tale, in the vein of films like Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, You Only Live Once, and They Live By Night, laced with a peculiar mixture of backwoods rockabilly, sun-drenched Texas landscapes, nightmarishly poetic auto accident scenes, eroticism, and harrowingly abrupt violence. The darkly comedic 1990 neo-noir, Wild at Heart, is based on a 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford, but it also bears the distinctly offbeat style of director David Lynch, whose 1986 film, Blue Velvet, and 1990 television series, Twin Peaks, share many of the same cast members. ![]() As this couple drives down their metaphorical yellow brick road toward their Oz destination, Lula's monstrously psychopathic mother, played by Diane Ladd, asks a private detective, played by Harry Dean Stanton, to bring them back, while simultaneously hiring a vicious gangster, played by J.E. When Sailor is released from prison in North Carolina after serving time for a self-defense killing, the two of them take off for California in a Ford Thunderbird. Lula, played by Laura Dern, is a rebellious 20 year-old whose radiantly reckless lust for life conceals a traumatic past. ![]() Sailor, played by Nicolas Cage, is an intensely chain-smoking Elvis Presley look-alike who wears a snakeskin jacket to symbolize his individuality and his belief in personal freedom. ![]()
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