Wild at Heart

"This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top." Director David Lynch blends together Southern Gothic melodrama, surreal kinky violence, and Elvis in this nightmare soap opera thrill ride. Based on the pulp novel by author Barry Gifford, the film follows outlaw lovers Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) as they go on the run through a menacing Deep South populated by the usual stable of unsettling Lynchian weirdos (including a bonkers Willem Dafoe). Funny, scary, and brilliantly cinematic, Lynch offers up a sun-bleached, heavy metal version of The Wizard of Oz, complete with witches, yellow brick roads and the clicking heels of ruby slippers. The film received the Palme d’Or for this film at Cannes amid “the most violent chorus of boos and hisses to be heard in a decade.” Strap in for a ride on the yellow brick road you won't soon forget!