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Actors: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Wild at Heart |
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When Sailor (Cage) gets out of jail after doing time for self-defensive manslaughter, Lula (Dern) is waiting for him. Her mother Marietta (Ladd) goes crazy over the match, so the couple head out on the road with a detective (Sailor's jumped his probation) and a killer hired by Marietta on their tails. Sailor and Lula tell each other their life stories, make passionate love in a variety of motels, and meet some typically bizarre Lynchian characters in a string of small towns. Eventually, stranded in one of those hamlets, Sailor goes in on a criminal job with the loathesome thug Bobby Peru (Dafoe). Cage acts with fire in his snakeskin jacket, and Dern does a fair job of becoming a dumb and oversexed doll. David Lynch regulars Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie, and Sherrilyn Fenn may be glimpsed among the supporting players, and Lynch quotes liberally from "The Wizard of Oz" as well as inserting references to Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and "Yojimbo." Although this film strikes some viewers as overlong and bleak for a romance, it won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990, and Ladd's crazed performance earned an Oscar nomination.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- criminals killing each other
- criminals on the run
Road trip
Yes
Lover is...
- criminal/bad doer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- Midwest
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- sinister, like an X-Files Gomer Pyle
- dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- book
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