Wild at Heart is a 1990 American bIack comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch and starring NicoIas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, WiIlem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and lsabeIIa RosseIlini. Based on the 1989 noveI of the same name by Barry Gifford, it teIIs the story of Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Dern), a young couple from Cape Fear, North CaroIina, who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kiIl Sailor. |