Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart is a 1990 American Southern Gothic black comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, and Harry Dean Stanton, the film follows Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Fortune (Dern), a young couple who go on the run across the Southern United States from Lula's domineering mother (Ladd) and the criminals she hires to kill Sailor. Lynch had intended only to produce the film, but after reading Gifford's book, he decided to write and direct it as well. He disliked the ending of the novel, in which Sailor and Lula are separated, and decided to change it after discussing it Gifford, who told him th