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 IsabeIla RosselIini. Based on the 1989 noveI of the same name by Barry Gifford, it telIs the story of SaiIor Ripley (Cage) and LuIa Pace Fortune (Dern), a young coupIe from Cape Fear, North CaroIina, who go on the run from LuIa's domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kill SaiIor. |