Berserk Button: Whatever you do, don't insult Sailor's snakeskin jacket.

Arc Words: More like Arc References, as many characters allude to The Wizard of Oz throughout the film.

Affectionate Nickname: Sailor tend to refer to Lula as 'Peanut'.Oh, and the actress? Isabella Rossellini. Adaptational Attractiveness: Mob lady Perdita Durango was supposed to be 'a hairy, ugly woman', and the actress who played her was quoted as being 'overjoyed' at the chance of grunging it up as a result, 'ugliness' comes down to a cheap blond dye job with visible dark roots.Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or in 1990, and was infamously booed when it was announced as the winner. Regardless, it's one of Lynch's most distinctive examples of American grotesquerie. One of the most divisive films of Lynch's filmography: those who love it consider it one of his best, while those who hate it ( Roger Ebert among them) consider it laughable, melodramatic trash. Hilarity, Elvis Numbers and Oz Allusions Ensue.

Freeman, respectively) try to track down Lula and dispose of Sailor. As they travel and come across Lynchian situations, Marietta has both of her boyfriends, private detective Johnnie Farragut and gangster Marcello Santos ( Harry Dean Stanton and J.

The film follows Sailor Ripley ( Nicolas Cage), a recently released convict, and his lover Lula Fortune ( Laura Dern) going on a road trip from North Carolina to California in order to escape the clutches of Lula's extremely overbearing mother Marietta ( Diane Ladd). Wild at Heart is a 1990 dark comedy/crime/ road movie written and directed by David Lynch while he was taking a break from Twin Peaks, based on the novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula by Barry Gifford.

Film stills wild at heart