wild at heart nicolas cage and laura dern

And although he’s only in one scene, Glover’s character, Dale, a mentally challenged young man who believes he’s being controlled by aliens, provides one of the movie’s more memorable highlights. Reindeer who never seems to get off the toilet.ĭafoe plays Bobby Peru, an unhinged ex-Marine and Vietnam vet who is far and away one of the most disturbing characters ever captured on film.

It’s populated by the larger-than-life oddball characters Lynch is known for: A Voodoo priestess who wears a leg brace and walks with a cane scores of little people pyromaniacs a prostitute harboring an impressive hoard of assault weapons grossly obese porn stars and a mysterious organized crime boss named Mr. The film is chock full of hot, gratuitous sex and features several violent, blood-soaked scenes, some of which are steeped in a sort of grim humor. It rivals a Bosch painting in its surreal and often grotesque depictions of everyday life, especially when it comes to the meaner things. Part coming-of-age story, part road movie, part crime drama, and part morality tale, Wild at Heart glamorizes and celebrates the underbelly of the American South in fluorescent fashion. It features an all-star cast including Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Harry Dean Stanton, Diane Ladd, Crispin Glover, Isabella Rossellini, and Willem Dafoe. I’ve watched it dozens of times on DVD.īased on a novel by the same name by American writer Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart won the Palm d’Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, the event’s most coveted and prestigious prize.

Since then, the film has remained among my top 10 favorites. I was so amazed by it that I went back and watched it again the next day by myself. I went to the theater to see it the week it came out, the summer after my freshman year of college, with my then boyfriend. Released in August 1990, Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, is the only film I’ve paid to watch twice.

Wild at heart nicolas cage and laura dern