Frank Baum's story is thrown together with a celebration of all things Americana, resulting in a film which is both memorable and disturbing. It's a very strange and uneven film in which L. If Eraserhead is Lynch's version of The Philadelphia Story, then Wild at Heart is his take on The Wizard of Oz. But Lula's mother (Dern's real-life mother Diane Ladd) has other plans, dispatching a number of ruthless and bizarre assassins to kill Sailor and bring Lula back. After Sailor is released from prison for murdering a man that Lula's mother sent to kill him, the couple go on the run from North Carolina to California to start their new life together. Based on the novel by Barry Gifford, Wild at Heart is a romance between Elvis-loving criminal Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and speed metal fan Lula Pace Fortune (Dern). But for pure skin-crawling hideousness, his performance as Bobby Peru takes quite a beating. Dafoe has always been good at playing grotesque, slippery or gruesome characters, and was creeping out his audiences long before he landed the role of the Green Goblin. Bobby Peru - Wild At Heart (1990) 24 years before The Fault in Our Stars, Dafoe and Laura Dern enjoyed a very different kind of on-screen relationship under the guiding hand of David Lynch.
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