Rotten
Even the title is a letdown, somehow.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Wild at Heart
A wild and crazy love story.
1990 · 2h 5m · R
Crime, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
David Lynch
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Wild at Heart
Overview
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Director and cast
- David Lynch Director
- Nicolas Cage as Sailor
- Laura Dern as Lula
- Willem Dafoe as Bobby Peru
- Diane Ladd as Marietta Fortune
- Harry Dean Stanton as Johnnie Farragut
- J.E. Freeman as Marcelles Santos
- Isabella Rossellini as Perdita Durango
- Grace Zabriskie as Juana Durango
- Calvin Lockhart as Reggie
- William Morgan Sheppard as Mr. Reindeer
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
66%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic.
Variety Staff, Variety
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
Fresh
Funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Though Miss Dern and Mr. Cage are constantly upstaged by the rest of the movie, they triumph.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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