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- 1990
- R
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 2 h 5 m
- 1990
- R
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 2 h 5 m
Summary David Lynch explores old theme: the story of two people (Cage and Dern) who thoroughly love each other, of two people whose love seems so strong that nothing can corrupt it. Yet, the evil forces of murder, corruption and perversion, which lurk beneath the seemingly clean surface of modern day America transform their journey into a ghost ...
Directed By: David Lynch
Written By: Barry Gifford, David Lynch
- 1990
- R
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 2 h 5 m
- 1990
- R
- The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 2 h 5 m
Wild at Heart
52
6.8
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Summary David Lynch explores old theme: the story of two people (Cage and Dern) who thoroughly love each other, of two people whose love seems so strong that nothing can corrupt it. Yet, the evil forces of murder, corruption and perversion, which lurk beneath the seemingly clean surface of modern day America transform their journey into a ghost ...
Directed By: David Lynch
Written By: Barry Gifford, David Lynch
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
52
39% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
28% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
52
39% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
33% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
28% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Starting with the outrageous and building from there, he ignites a slight love-on-the-run novel, creating a bonfire of a movie that confirms his reputation as the most exciting and innovative filmmaker of his generation.
Misfit cameos, apparently random asides and an almost continuous onslaught of unsettling sex and violence mean there’s no mistaking David Lynch’s hand behind the camera -- but there’s enough of a narrative to make this work as a straightforward road movie, too.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 105 User Ratings
6.8
68% Positive
71 Ratings
71 Ratings
18% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
14% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 105 User Ratings
6.8
68% Positive
71 Ratings
71 Ratings
18% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
14% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
It is a weird movie, and i liked it, Wild At Heart is like the title, Wild, means the movie doesn't like any romance couples movie, it's different, we don't see a movie about two couples falling in love and then there's some bastard who take the girls and the boys got jealous, then they are fighting and in the end they're back together again, Wild At Heart is about a couples who is the boys is been planned to got killed by the girls mother, plus they have to deal with a crazy robbery man, and how is that isn't different and crazy enough, Wild At Heart delivers all of that so well, i highly recommended.
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Wild At Heart is as David Lynch describes it, a road romance movie that takes you on a journey along a twisted highway in the modern world.
If I had to describe wild at heart in three words I would say powerful, wild and romantic.
It is very different to any other lynch films as it largely makes sense and has a lighter feeling to it as well as a few very disturbing scenes.
The cast is star studded and excellent. Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe are captivating. Diane Laddâ
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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.
As a story, Wild at Heart is even less coherent than “Blue Velvet,'' to the point where whole characters and subplots disappear into a murky haze at the end. [17 Aug 1990, Arts, p.11]
This time, though, Mr. Lynch's conceits are less often pleasurably disorienting than out of focus.
One of the most violent opening scenes in screen history…Yet given such a visually adept exercise, the rest seems transparently off-the-cuff. There are obese trailer-camp porn stars, heavenly visions, a climactic rendition of Love Me Tender and no-point references to The Wizard of Oz - all of which top this two-hour farrago like a soggy tarp. [17 Aug 1990, Life, 4D]
At least (John) Waters cares about most of his freaks; for Lynch they're basically exploitation fodder for a puritanical "dark vision of the universe" that seems to come straight out of junior high, complete with giggles.
I agree w/ another User (love that term!) this is not as great as Blue Velvet or Mulholland but practically nothing is. WAH vacillates --wildly, ok?-- between easy and difficult, sometimes both at the same time. In the 2004 Making Of, Lynch says Laura Dern is the best actress he's worked with, and she is marvelous here. Casting her real-life mother Diane Ladd makes it not just a Sailor & Lula love story but also a mother-daughter picture. Above all, WAH feels restless and sometimes its restlessness is very disturbing. The love story may be feel-good but there's plenty here that isn't. Countless references to the Wizard of Oz create dissonant notes. To quote Rosemary, "This is no dream, it's really happening!" And we viewers have to make up our own mind: About what to make of it all. Suerte w/ that! Did we get enough parental guidance?
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ça faisait longtemps que je ne l'avais pas vu et force est de constater que ce sont surtout ses défauts qui m'ont davantage sauté à la tronche que ses -pourtant- indéniables qualités... car après tout, on trouve déjà dans ce film une bonne partie des obsessions de Lynch, le partage entre le monde réel dégueulasse et le monde imaginaire, celui des rêves, idéal... des gens très méchants et d'autres très gentils... mais si vulnérables...
Mais tout cela n'atteint pas un dégré aussi brillamment développé que dans ses autres films, quitte à ce qu'ils sombrent presque corps et biens dans le surréalisme plus ou moins abscons, délirant mais aussi globalement plus captivant que ce Sailor et Lula un peu trop nunuche, à la manière -regrettable- d'un Blue Velvet d'ailleurs.
Cependant, malgré quelques (rares) longueurs, on apprécie toujours la belle mise en scène du gars Lynch, qui ne déçoit jamais à cet égard et déjà cet humour volontiers décapant, violent et sardonique dont il s'est fait une spécialité, la combinant avec le reste de son monde imaginaire et paranoïaque comme il sait si bien le faire.
Quant à nos tourtereaux Dern et Cage, ils sont carrément idiots mais c'est évidemment à dessein comme une caricature plus ou moins ratée mais plus ratée que réussie, néanmoins... Dafoe est pour sa part hilarant et montre déjà l'acteur hors-normes qu'il est, véritable électron libre incontrôlable !
Faussement romantique ou véritablement imbécile dans ses quelques excès, le film reste très facile d'accès pour un Lynch mais un peu en retrait des autres oeuvres du metteur en scène illuminé.
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although Im a huge lynch fan, this is a movie so plain and simple, trying to show more than it knows, and like you shut down too-much-talking-people, and some point you just want this movie to stop trying.
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Hilariously bad. The film starts off with an interesting premise but it eventually gets drowned out as David Lynch just tries to do as much weird crap as he can. The end result is a grotesque, unpleasingly disturbing film that wishes it was something that it was not. Lynch likes to believe this is a remake of "The Wizard of Oz", but he has to have taken to much acid to believe that. Multiple random references that vary in how much sense they make (on a scale from no sense at all to a little sense if you really think about it) does not make it a remake of "The Wizard of Oz". On top of that, with some exceptions, the acting was just bad. Nicolas Cage was good in this, however, so there is that positive. At the end of the day, "Wild at Heart" is a collection of disturbing images with very little effort done to connect them. I love a good weird movie with a random assortment images, but there has to be some connecting factor but the leap from the much more realistic scenes to the weird as all hell surrealistic scenes is a leap I do not know how to make, nor do I think I want to. I wanted to like this one, but at the end of the day, I simply cannot.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
20/20 Awards
• 4 Nominations
