---
title: 'Wild at Heart (1990)'
type: 'film'
director: 'David Lynch'
released: '1990-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 120
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/wild-at-heart-1990'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100935/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Wild at Heart (1990)

1990 · R · 120 min · Drama, Comedy, Romance, Crime, Thriller · United States


## Synopsis

Wild at Heart is a 1990 American Southern Gothic black comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, and Harry Dean Stanton, the film follows Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Fortune (Dern), a young couple who go on the run across the Southern United States from Lula's domineering mother (Ladd) and the criminals she hires to kill Sailor.

## Credits

- **Director:** [David Lynch](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-lynch)
- **Screenplay:** [David Lynch](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-lynch), [Barry Gifford](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-gifford)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Angelo Badalamenti](https://cinepixo.com/people/angelo-badalamenti)
- **Producer:** [Sigurjón Sighvatsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/sigurjon-sighvatsson), [Steve Golin](https://cinepixo.com/people/steve-golin), [Monty Montgomery](https://cinepixo.com/people/monty-montgomery)
- **Director of Photography:** [Frederick Elmes](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederick-elmes)
- **Editor:** [Duwayne Dunham](https://cinepixo.com/people/duwayne-dunham)

## Cast

- [Isabella Rossellini](https://cinepixo.com/people/isabella-rossellini)
- [Sheryl Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/sheryl-lee)
- [Nicolas Cage](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicolas-cage) as Sailor Ripley
- [Freddie Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/freddie-jones)
- [John Lurie](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-lurie)
- [Tracey Walter](https://cinepixo.com/people/tracey-walter)
- [Crispin Glover](https://cinepixo.com/people/crispin-glover)
- [Charlie Spradling](https://cinepixo.com/people/charlie-spradling)
- [Marvin Kaplan](https://cinepixo.com/people/marvin-kaplan)
- [Koko Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/koko-taylor)
- [Calvin Lockhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/calvin-lockhart)
- [Diane Ladd](https://cinepixo.com/people/diane-ladd)
- [David Patrick Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-patrick-kelly)
- [Peter Bromilow](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-bromilow)
- [Pruitt Taylor Vince](https://cinepixo.com/people/pruitt-taylor-vince)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/wild-at-heart-1990
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