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Wild at Heart

1990

David Lynch

Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe ...

7.0

28,328

Drama. Thriller Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis fixation who falls in love with Lula Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern belle named Marietta. 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 trip, pursued by his parole officer, her mother, criminals, bounty hunters, and detectives. Along the way, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A breathtaking display of movie magic that steadily tightens its hypnotic hold"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"Instead of being wild at heart, it's empty at heart."	NEG
United Kingdom	Kenny Matheson Empire	"Not for the weak of heart, one of the best Lynchian outings with some fantastically memorable dialogue (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"For an hour, and probably more, Wild At Heart is quite brilliant (...) it is much weakened by a final section which relapses at crucial points into black jokeness"	NEU
United States	Variety	"Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Like 'Blue Velvet,' this is a film without the courage to declare its own darkest fantasies (...) Lynch seems to be doing a Bunuel script with a Jerry Lewis rewrite (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The first Lynch movie that could be accused of wearing its weirdness on its sleeve. (...) seems torn between making a mod genre picture — a scabrous and bloody Southern Gothic road comedy — and playing avant-garde show-off. The result is a sluggish, pretentious mess."	NEG

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