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Wild at Heart

Turkish title: Vahşi Duygular

“A wild and crazy love story.”

1990 · 2 h 5 min
Directed by David Lynch
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Cast

Nicolas Cage Laura Dern Willem Dafoe

Credits

Written by: Barry Gifford

Plot

A young couple flee across the American South while pursued by figures sent by the woman's mother. It won the Palme d'Or.

Sinekatalog’s take

David Lynch's Palme d'Or winner is a violent, sexy road movie full of Oz references and Elvis swagger. Cage and Dern burn up the screen, though the film's excess makes it a love-or-hate experience.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (113,569 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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