Wild at Heart [Blu-ray]

Director: David Lynch

Overview

Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie Wild at Heart. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern belle named Marietta (Diane Ladd, Dern's real-life mother). Just after Sailor is released from prison, where he was jailed for brutally killing one of Marietta's thugs, he and Lula take off on a wild cross-country trip, pursued by his parole officer, her mother, criminals, bounty hunters, and detectives. Along the way, Sailor and Lula have a lot of sex, share their pasts, share their respective obsessions for Elvis and The Wizard of Oz, and meet a lot of bizarre characters, including a seedy ex-marine (Willem Dafoe) who persuades Sailor to participate in a bank robbery.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/21/2018
UPC:	0826663191332
Original Release:	1990
Rating:	R
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	2:04:00
Sales rank:	10,196

Special Features

New Interview with Novelist Barry Gilford; Over an hour of Deleted Scenes; "Love, Death, Elvis and Oz: The Making of Wild At Heart" Documentary; Dell's Lunch Counter: Extended Interviews; Lynch On The DVD Process; Original 1990 Making-Of EPK, Image Gallery and TV Spots; Specific Spontaneity: Focus on David Lynch

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nicolas Cage	Sailor
Laura Dern	Lula
Willem Dafoe	Bobby Peru
J.E. Freeman	Santos
Crispin Glover	Dell
Diane Ladd	Marietta Fortune
Calvin Lockhart	Reggie
Isabella Rossellini	Perdita
Harry Dean Stanton	Johnnie Farragut
Grace Zabriskie	Juana
Sherilyn Fenn	Girl in Accident
Marvin Kaplan	Uncle Pooch
William Morgan Sheppard	Mr. Reindeer(as W. Morgan Sheppard),Actor
David Patrick Kelly	Dropshadow
Freddie Jones	George Kovich
John Lurie	Sparky
Jack Nance	00 Spool
Pruitt Taylor Vince	Buddy
Gregg Dandridge	Bob Ray Lemon
Glenn Walker Harris Jr.	Pace
Frances Bay	Madam
Blair Bruce Bever	Hotel Custodian
Sally Boyle	Aunt Rootie
Peter Bromilow	Hotel Manager
Lisa Ann Cabasa	Reindeer Dancer
Frank Collison	Timmy Thompson
Eddy Dixon	Rex,Actor
Brent David Fraser	Idiot Punk,Idiot Punk
Bellina Logan	Actor
Charlie Spradling	Irma
Tommy Kendrick	Red (uncredited/cut out)
Scott Coffey	Billy
Cage Johnson	Man at Shell Station
Sheryl Lee	Good Witch
Nicholas Love	Man in Wheelchair
Koko Taylor	Singer at Zanzibar
Ed Wright	Desk Clerk
Darrell Zwerling	Singer's Manager
Bob Terhune	Earl Kovich (uncredited/cut out)
Jack Jozefson	Chet (uncredited/cut out)
Tracey Walter	Roach (uncredited/cut out)
Albert Popwell	Barkeeper at Zanzibar (uncredited/cut out)
Daniel Quinn	Young Cowboy
Shawne Rowe	Waitress (uncredited/cut out)
Angelo Badalamenti	Composer

Technical Credits

David Lynch

Mark Frost

Michael Kuhn	Executive Producer
Steve Golin	Producer
Monty Montgomery	Producer
Sigurjon Sighvatsson	Producer
David Lynch	Screenwriter
David Domeyer	Special Effects
David Miller	Special Effects,Special Effects
Don Power	Special Effects
Johanna Ray	Casting
Mark Frost	Screenwriter
Louis Lazara	Special Effects
Roydon Clark	Stunts
Bob Terhune	Stunts
Michael Adams	Stunts
Orwin Harvey	Stunts
Bernie Pock	Stunts
Steve Kelso	Stunts
Donna Evans	Stunts
Wally Rose	Stunts
Neil Summers	Stunts
Eddie Wong	Stunts
Mike Johnson	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Appearing at the height of the director's popularity, thanks to the inescapable, if short-lived, Twin Peaks phenomenon, Wild at Heart is also the most stereotypically Lynchian of David Lynch's films, filled with striking visuals, surreal asides, pop-culture references, quirky characters, and oblique commentary on American life. As such, it will leave some viewers thrilled, others scratching their heads in annoyance. The open structure of the road film allows Lynch to indulge his most freewheeling instincts, and the results might be predictably mixed, but they're also frequently thrilling. If individual scenes themselves feel loosely connected, Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern help hold the enterprise together by lending surprising poignancy to what could have been fairly cartoonish characters. Though not without its moments of unevenness, cumulatively, it feels like the perfect contemporary picaresque for the fast-food era.