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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
 
 


 
PRO Reviews


Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic.
(Variety)
Lynch's special angle on the world is sometimes repellent but often smashingly effective. One roadside sequence, in which Sailor and Lula encounter the staggering victim of a car accident - played by Sherilyn Fenn, Audrey on Twin Peaks - resonates with a ghostly, poetic terror. Lynch's gorgeously lurid style is superbly complemented by the photography of Frederick Elmes, who worked with Lynch on Eraserhead, Dune, and Blue Velvet, and by the eerily evocative score of the Twin Peaks maestro Angelo Badalamenti.
(Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)
Funny, scary, and brilliantly cinematic.
(Geoff Andrew, Time Out)
As lurid, bizarre, absurd, erotic, sick and perverse as any film you are likely to see this year. Every character seems to have stepped freshly minted from a nightmare... [It] is a suburban grotesque, warped American gothic; a surreal joy ride through hell.
(Evening Standard Magazine)

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