Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, which at the time was considered a controversial decision. Early test screenings for the film were poorly received, with Lynch estimating that at least 300 people walked out due to its sexual and violent content.

The film is noted for its allusions to The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley.

He disliked the ending of the novel and decided to change it to fit his vision of the main characters. Lynch intended to only produce the film, but after reading Gifford's book, he decided to write and direct it as well. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, and Harry Dean Stanton, the film follows Sailor Ripley and Lula Fortune, a young couple who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the criminals she hires to kill Sailor. His mother was Betty Glover who died in 2016.Wild at Heart is a 1990 American romantic crime drama film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford. He rearranges text, blacks out certain standing passages, and adds his own prose and sometimes images. He makes the books by reusing old novels and other publications which are in the public domain due to their age. Glover has written between 15 and 20 books. The company publishes his books and also is the production company for his movies, What Is It? and It is Fine. In the late 1980s, Glover started his company, Volcanic Eruptions. He has acted in such movies as Back to the Future, Epic Movie (where he did a parody of the Willy Wonka played by Johnny Depp) and the Open Season series as Fifi. Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is an American actor.

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