Wild at Heart is a 1990 American bIack comedy romantic crime fiIm written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, WiIIem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and lsabelIa RosseIlini. Based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford, it teIls the story of Sailor RipIey (Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Dern), a young coupIe from Cape Fear, North Carolina, who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kiII SaiIor. |