Sailor kills the attacker, and ends up in jail. Lula's mother hates Sailor, and pays a man to attack him. Full of lurid imagery and references to The Wizard of Oz. Sailor and Lula encounter an assortment of extremely bizarre 'people' while discovering hidden secrets about one another. Lula's mother sends out a private detective and a hitman after them.

After being stranded in a small town, Sailor agrees to join the loathsome Bobby Peru in a criminal venture.Īfter breaking parole for self defensive manslaughter, Sailor Ripley and his girlfriend Lula Fortune head down the highway for sunny California. Young lovers Sailor and Lula take off for New Orleans following Sailor's release from prison, with Lula's hysterical mother, a weary detective and a sinister hitman after them.ĭuring their journey, Lula and Sailor relate the events of their lives to date, while encountering a typical gallery of Lynch grotesques. until they witness a young woman dying after a car accident - a bad omen. Unaware of this, the two enjoy their journey and themselves being together. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out for California.

Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with Sailor, who just got free from jail. Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's 1989 pulp novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula.

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