Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Lula Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable Southern Belle - Marietta. 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. Along the way, Sailor and Lula have a lot of sex, share their pasts, share their respective obsessions for Elvis and The Wizard of Oz, and meet a lot of bizarre characters. Inevitably, the voyage ends in tragedy, as a seedy ex-marine persuades Sailor to participate in a bank robbery. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern leads, opposite Willem Dafoe, J. E. Freeman, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Calvin Lockhart, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton, Grace Zabriskie. Written for the Screen and Directed by David Lynch; Based upon "the Story of Sailor and Lula" by Barry Gifford, which was published in a same year. Produced by Monty Montgomery, Steve Golin and Sigurjon Signvatsson; Executive Produced by Michael Kuhn. a PolyGram/Propaganda Films production for The Samuel Goldwyn Company.