When they meet Sailor, he reveals he will be leaving them both, having decided whilst in prison that he is not good enough for them. Rejecting her mother's objections over the phone, she throws water over her mother's photograph and goes to pick up Sailor with their son. Upon his release, Lula decides to reunite with him. While Sailor is in jail, Lula has their child. Sailor is arrested and sentenced to six years in prison. Chasing Sailor out of the store, Peru is about to kill him when the sheriff's deputy opens fire on him and Peru blows his own head off with his own shotgun. Peru then admits to Sailor that he has been hired to kill him, and Sailor realizes he has been given a pistol with dummy ammunition. The robbery goes spectacularly wrong when Peru unnecessarily shoots the two clerks. This traumatizes Lula, who was raped as a child. While Sailor is out, Peru enters the room and threatens to sexually assault Lula, forcing her to ask him to have sex with her, before leaving, stating he has no time.
While Sailor agrees to join up with gangster Bobby Peru in a feed store robbery, Lula waits for him in the hotel room, trying to conceal that she is pregnant with Sailor's child. With little money left, Sailor heads for Big Tuna, Texas, where he contacts 'old friend' Perdita Durango, who might be able to help them, although she secretly knows Lula's mother has a contract out for his murder. Unaware of all of the events happening back in North Carolina, Lula and Sailor continue on their way until they witness-according to Lula-a bad omen: the aftermath of a two-car accident, and the only survivor, a young woman, dying in front of them. Santos's minions capture and kill Farragut, sending Marietta into a guilt-fueled psychosis. But unbeknownst to Farragut, Marietta also hires gangster Marcello Santos to track them and kill Sailor. Marietta arranges for private detective Johnnie Farragut-her on-off boyfriend-to find them and bring them back. Later, back in their hotel room, after making love again, Sailor and Lula finally decide to run away to California, breaking Sailor's parole. At the club, Sailor gets into a fight with a man who flirts with Lula, and then leads the band in a rendition of the Elvis Presley song " Love Me". They go to a hotel where she reserved a room, make love and go to see the speed metal band Powermad. Upon Sailor's release, Lula picks him up outside prison, where she hands him his snakeskin jacket. Lovers Lula and Sailor are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula's mother, Marietta Fortune. It has since been positively re-evaluated by critics. Diane Ladd was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, which at the time was considered a controversial decision. On release, the film had mixed critical reviews and grossed $14 million against its $10 million budget. Įarly test screenings for Wild at Heart had a poor reception Lynch estimated that 300 people walked out of an early screening.
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Wild at Heart is a road movie which includes allusions to The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley and his movies. He did not like the ending of the novel and thus decided to change it to fit his vision of the main characters. Lynch was going to produce, but after reading Gifford's book, he decided to write and direct as well.
Based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford, it tells the story of Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Dern), a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina, who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kill Sailor. Wild at Heart is a 1990 American black comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and Isabella Rossellini.