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Wild At Heart


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  Wild At Heart Review
Tookey's Rating
5 /10
 
Average Rating
6.00 /10
 
Starring
Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd
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Directed by: David Lynch
Written by: David Lynch from Barry Gifford's novel

 
 
 
Released: 1990
   
Genre: OVERRATED
ROMANCE
THRILLER
   
Origin: US
   
Length: 127
 
 


 
ANTI Reviews


From the opening scene of Wild at Heart, David Lynch crosses the line between art and obscenity. A white man beats a Black man to a literal pulp - blood oozes, bones crack, body crumples... Lynch's paean to fifties values in Wild at Heart shows exactly where his heart is: deep in the darkness of a lily-white paranoid America.
(Armond White, City Sun)
There is something repulsive and manipulative about it, and even its best scenes have the flavor of a kid in the school yard, trying to show you pictures you don't feel like looking at.
(Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)
A real contender for bad-taste movie of the year... And the rock score matches the mood - heavy, man, heavy... Take a sick bag.
(Peter Cox, Sun)
Much of it makes no sense and is just plain pretentious and tedious. Don't look too hard for the plot or you'll strain your eyes.
(Simon Rose, Essential Film Guide, 1993)

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