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Wild At Heart [DVD] [1991]
enlarge	Director: David Lynch Actors: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman Studio: Universal Pictures UK Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £2.49 as of 23/11/2009 05:29 GMT details You Save: £13.50 (84%) New (11) Used (5) Collectible (2) from £2.49 Seller: selectcheaper Rating: 12 reviews Sales Rank: 5155 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Special Edition Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 120 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.6 x 0.6 EAN: 5050582256499 ASIN: B000B73H4I Theatrical Release Date: 1991 Release Date: November 28, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review David Lynch's 1990 iWild at Heart/i is an utterly random and ugly experience with pockets of startling imagery and inspired set pieces. Based on a Barry Gifford novel, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as lovers on the lam whose relationship is tested and who meet some truly dangerous wackos (including an almost-simian Willem Dafoe). Lynch's thoughts seem to be everywhere, and he expects the audience to keep up with a story that seems more a collection of avant-garde whims than a coherent vision with the intuitive brilliance of his Blue Velvet. Cage gives one of his more chaotic performances, but then he was just reading Lynch's signposts. --iTom Keogh/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 12 1 2 3 Next » Mildly surreal David Lynch classic April 28, 2006 Dr. C. S. Walker (London, UK) 11 out of 12 found this review helpful Very enjoyable film that is well written, cast and acted (Willem Dafoe's performance is classic and shows Nicholas Cage's in his best role to date). Perhaps unusual by David Lynch's standards, the film is only mildy surreal with a storyline you can follow. Would recommend to anyone except parents, too weird and violent, and work colleagues who might think you're a bit odd. Lynch at his linear best - a weird and wonderful full-tilt romance July 19, 2007 Franklin T Marmoset 3 out of 3 found this review helpful When a film kicks off with Nicolas Cage beating a guy's brains in and doing his signature Elvis point, you know you're in for something special. What follows is David Lynch's most vibrant and energetic film - a full-tilt love story with a dark and twisted underbelly. br / br /Storywise, what you get is this: Sailor (Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern) are deeply in love, much to the chagrin of Lula's demented mother. Our young lovers hit the road and head out for California, with a detective and a hitman in hot pursuit, and they encounter all manner of weirdness and tests to their relationship along the way. br / br /Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern turn in what I think are career-best performances in this one. Cage's Elvis obsession had yet to outstay its welcome at the time, so it's okay to sit back and enjoy it here, and his wild but oddly noble portrayal of Sailor makes him immensely likable - especially when he stages an impromptu cover of 'Love Me' with a heavy metal band - even if he is kind of a doofus. Dern keeps pace perfectly as trailer-trash sexpot Lula, also not too bright but equally sympathetic. Both actors are great, embracing the over-the-top nature of the story and going full bore to the end. br / br /Almost stealing the film from them both, however, is a brilliantly sleazy Willem Dafoe as dentally-challenged nutbag Bobby Peru. He's not around for long, but he makes a huge impact, and this remains one of his most memorable roles. br / br /With Lynch taking a less linear path with his more recent films, Wild At Heart is a fantastic reminder of the days when he was still mixing his trademark weirdness and black humour with more traditional stories. This one gives you your freaks and your oddballs, as well as a decent helping of twisted strangeness, but underneath it all is an enjoyably naive love story and a plot you don't have to sit through four times to make sense of. Wild At Heart is bright, funny, sexy, inventive, idiosyncratic stuff of the type David Lynch excels at, and it continues to be my favourite of his films. dark stylish twisted road movie February 7, 2008 Alister King (London, England) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful early doors we are treated to a head being pummeled on marble steps to some crushing metal power chords and we know we're in good hands (the splendid mr lynch of course) br / br /cage is on the run with the daugter of a nutty rich mum after torching the house and this gives the film its road movie basis, but lynch creates such compelling characters (cAGE'S ELVIS MAD SNAKESKIN JACKET WEARING ROmANTIC CRIMINAL; dearns nympho screamy femme fatale; defoe's foul creepy sleazy nutter crim) that its got so much more to it. add in the hyper surreal texas at night setting (including a pron film location shoot with 24 stone moms) and some priceless dialogue (cage confronted by a ganag of texmex thugs enquiring "now what do you foggots want?") and you have one of the best films of the 80's, make that ever. Ablaze October 12, 2006 W. Leitch (Highlands, Scotland) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful David Lynch changed tack with Wild at Heart, surreal touches and memorably evil characters are present, such as Willem Defoe's Bobby Peru (`as in the country.'), but it's a loose, funny road trip. br / br /Nic Cage and Laura Dern tear up the screen as Sailor and Lula, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe stuck in a Southern Greek tragedy with only their favourite band, Powermad, on the radio and Motels for company. On their trail, sent by Lula's mother (Played by Dern's real-life mother Diane Ladd) is Harry Dean Stanton's loveable Private Eye. br / br /Add to this mix Circa-Twin Peaks Sherilyn Fenn in a haunting cameo, Sailor halting a metal gig to sing Elvis and many, many Wizard of Oz references you have a unique, blistering movie. Rockin' good news! br / The family knot of struggling vipers August 21, 2007 Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France) 3 out of 6 found this review helpful A simple film by David Lynch. Of course you have suspense. Of course you have a good thriller. Of course too you have a good love story and gangster story intertwined. But there is something more than that in this simple film. David Lynch, for an unreasonable, i.e. unexplainable, reason decides to have a good sentimental positive ending. That enables us to draw a lesson from the rest of the film and transform a simple gangster story into a philosophical story about family and parents. A possessive mother can destroy everything around her but there is no reason for the daughter to yield and the daughter will always win against her possessive mother. Even evil witchcraft, or mafia gangsters, will not save the mother's stake. On the other side the father is an indispensable presence in the life of a child, be he a boy or she a girl. The possessive mother will get rid of the father if necessary just like she will get rid of her own lover if he stands in the way of her possessive schizophrenia (to commit suicide with lipstick, ah ah ah). But the father will survive for the daughter as a target to attain and recreate in the man she will choose to love, be impregnated by and "marry" in a way or another. But what's more the child born from this union will need a father and will recognize him at first sight even six years after his birth or so. Is this line, this thread going along all David Lynch's films? Maybe not so clearly but yes there is a family problem in all films, a link with some kind of a family, a father, a mother, an aunt, or someone else. The happy ending of this film and the way it is constructed at the very last minute in a very spectacular flight and return scene and then exploited through all the credits seem to show this family link is the essential link in the back of David Lunch's (at least ) subconscious mind. Well done and rather entertaining. And I loved the Deep Creek, Gulch, Stream, Bay or whatever, but Deep anyway, in the middle of a desertic nowhere somewhere in Texas, if it is Texas. As for the setting of some deep tragedy in the deepest layers of the minds of the characters or the dregs of society it is perfect with a heroin called Fortune and a hero called Sailor, that is wet with humor and damp with wit. br / br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne br / Showing reviews 1-5 of 12 1 2 3 Next »

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