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Wild at Heart
A wild crazy love story.
A wild crazy love story.
Comedy, Crime, Thriller - 1990
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67%
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After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
124 min
Release date:
17 Aug 1990
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$9,500,000
Revenue:
$14,560,247
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 12 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Though Miss Dern and Mr. Cage are constantly upstaged by the rest of the movie, they triumph.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
Barry Gifford's beautifully written picaresque novel about southern lovers on the run, though essentially literary, could have worked as a movie had David Lynch shown some fidelity to the realistic context.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
17 Sep 2008
fresh:
Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
17 Sep 2008
rotten:
Even the title is a letdown, somehow.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Sep 2008
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