![]() ![]() And Ladd is so wildly over the top you may occasionally think you're watching "Mommie Dearest." Then there are all those references to Elvis Presley and "The Wizard of Oz," ranging from humorous to humiliating.Ĭage, wearing a snakeskin jacket, smoking two cigarettes at a time and doing a self-conscious Elvis impersonation much of the way (he even sings two Presley songs), is fascinating to watch, as is Dern in a role that is 180 degrees from her "Blue Velvet" character. Meanwhile there are all kinds of seemingly unrelated sequences, probably the most memorable belonging to Crispin Glover as "Jingle Dell," a Christmas-crazy looney-tune relative of Lula's who puts cockroaches in his underwear and believes aliens with black gloves are out to get him. ![]() So she sends the naive detective who loves her (Harry Dean Stanton) out to find them, then also sends a hit man who wants to kill Sailor and the detective.Īs they travel, "Sail" and "Peanut," as they call each other, encounter all kinds of weirdos, culminating with a band of goons in Bad Tuna, Texas. Marietta hates Sailor, thinking he knows something about a secret she's kept buried for many years. Most of the movie is a road trip, with Sailor and Lula running away from her mother, the psychotic Marietta Fortune (played by Dern's real-life mother, Diane Ladd), who sucks martinis and smears lipstick all over her face, which tends to clash with her orange nail polish. Nicolas Cage is Sailor Ripley, a hot-tempered, violent ex-con in love with Lula Pace Fortune, played by Laura Dern, moving as far away from her clean-scrubbed image as she can get. "Wild at Heart" is a love story of sorts. ![]() ![]() More comically intended than "Blue Velvet" and certainly less restrained than his TV series "Twin Peaks," "Wild at Heart" is writer-director Lynch at the most bizarre he's let himself be since "Eraserhead," his first and most experimental movie. Critics nationally are falling all over themselves over David Lynch's latest movie "Wild at Heart." But for me it was neither revealing nor enlightening - and it certainly wasn't entertaining. ![]()
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