Lula Fortune and
Sailor Ripley go to a dance together but it ends with Sailor killing a man who
came after him with a knife.
Sailor spends some time in the Pee Dee Correctional Facility and Lula is there to
pick him up when he gets out. They
decide to ignore Sailor’s probation orders and they head for California but first to
New Orleans. Lula’s mother,
Marietta Fortune loses her mind every time she thinks about Lula with Sailor. She hires a killer to hunt down
Sailor.
The violence is over the top in this film, too much for me and too harsh. Some scenes are not fully shown in the beginning and they are shown again with all the details. There are many flashback scenes to a fire at Lula's home. Both Lula and Sailor have problems from things that happened in their childhoods. Director David Lynch likes his films to be a jigsaw puzzle of ideas. 2* (I didn't like this movie)
125
min, Comedy directed by David Lynch with Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem
Dafoe, J.E. Freeman, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Calvin Lockhart, Isabella
Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie.
Note: Imdb 7.2 out of 10, 65% critic 81%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*, Amazon 4.2* out of 5* with 185
reviews.
Special
Note: Filmed in El Paso, Texas;
New Orleans, Louisiana; Los Angeles, Pasadena, Colton, Palmdale, North
Hollywood, California. Before
filming started, Dern and Cage went on a private road trip to Las Vegas to bond
and define their characters as one.
The snakeskin jacket worn by Sailor belonged to Cage and he gave it to
Dern after filming. Dern’s cousin
was Tennessee Williams and her parents, Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern met during a
stage production of Orpheus Descending.
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