Wild at Heart

1990 • 2h 5m •

Crime Thriller Romance

MOVIEVIBE Rating

★ 7.0/10

1,985 reviews

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Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

"A wild and crazy love story."

Top Billed Cast

Nicolas Cage

Sailor

Laura Dern

Lula

Willem Dafoe

Bobby Peru

Diane Ladd

Marietta Fortune

Harry Dean Stanton

Johnnie Farragut

J.E. Freeman

Marcelles Santos

Isabella Rossellini

Perdita Durango

Grace Zabriskie

Juana Durango

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

K kevin2019 Verified TMDB Critic

2026-01-23

"Wild at Heart" quickly becomes completely incomprehensible and mired down in David Lynch's typical quagmire of self indulgence which successfully aggravates, alienates and frustrates mainstream audiences just for the hell of it which is perfectly okay, but what isn't perfectly okay is when the story is abandoned even though it is still as inconclusive at the end as it was in the beginning. The problems confronting Sailor and Lula are never satisfactorily resolved and the character Johnnie Farregut actually goes completely AWOL and he is never heard from again. This is a watchable enough film ...