Wild at Heart

Released Date
August 17, 1990
Distributor
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Genre
Drama
Rating
R
Worldwide Gross
Domestic Gross + International Gross = Worldwide Gross
$14,560,247 + $1,178 = $14,561,425
60
Nicolas Cage

as Sailor Ripley

57
Laura Dern

as Lula Pace Fortune

69
Willem Dafoe

as Bobby Peru

72
Isabella Rossellini

as Perdita Durango

60
Crispin Glover

as Dell

59
Sherilyn Fenn

as Girl in Accident

1926-2017
Harry Dean Stanton

as Johnnie Farragut

57
Sheryl Lee

as Good Witch

88
Diane Ladd

as Marietta Fortune

1932-2019
W Morgan Sheppard

as Mr. Reindeer

1943-1996
Jack Nance

as 00 Spool

83
Grace Zabriskie

as Juana Durango

About Wild at Heart

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

About

David Lynch film about a young couple who go on the run from her domineering mother and the gangsters she hired. It is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford.

Trivia

The film includes several allusions to The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley movies. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, and Diane Ladd was an Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee for Best Supporting Actress.