The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, which at the time was considered a controversial decision. Wild at Heart is a road movie which includes allusions to The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley and his movies. He did not like the ending of the novel and thus decided to change it to fit his vision of the main characters. Lynch was going to produce, but after reading Gifford's book, he decided to write and direct as well.

Based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford, it tells the story of Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Dern), a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina, who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kill Sailor. Wild at Heart is a 1990 American black comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and Isabella Rossellini. This is an original Japanese poster printed in 1990 for the first release of Wild at Heart.

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