Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-con with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, the daughter of a rich, mentally unstable Southern belle named Marietta (Diane Ladd, Dern's real-life mother). Just after Sailor is released from prison, where he was jailed for brutally killing one of Marietta's thugs, he and Lula take off on a wild cross-country trip, pursued by his parole officer, her mother, criminals, bounty hunters, and detectives.
Playing in tribute to David Lynch, who passed away this year. Also see THE ELEPHANT MAN on 27th April.
