Wild at Heart

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together without the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Wild at Heart is a love story, sure, but it's also a coming-of-age tale of sorts, as Lula, through this forbidden road trip, sees and experiences horrors that shatter the innocence that her monstrously overprotective mother (Diane Ladd) has tried so hard to maintain. And yet, she and her love for Sailor (Nicolas Cage) endures. Sailor's concluding rendition of «Love Me Tender» encapsulates Wild at Heart's sincere/ironic duality: It's as cheekily goofy as it is achingly passionate.

 The Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival.