A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Direction
Lynch's most underrated mind-bender — Mulholland's twisted older brother.
Score
Angelo Badalamenti and Trent Reznor create industrial jazz hellscape.
Acting
Robert Blake's Mystery Man: pure uncanny valley nightmare fuel.
Director
David Lynch
Patricia Arquette
Renee Madison / Alice Wakefield
Bill Pullman
Fred Madison
Balthazar Getty
Pete Dayton
Robert Blake
Mystery Man
Robert Loggia
Mr. Eddy / Dick Laurent
Michael Massee
Andy
Natasha Gregson Wagner
Sheila
Richard Pryor
Arnie
Gary Busey
Bill Dayton
Lucy Butler
Candace Dayton
Jack Nance
Phil
Jack Kehler
Guard Johnny Mack
Henry Rollins
Guard Henry
Giovanni Ribisi
Steve "V"
Scott Coffey
Teddy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lynch wrote the script using the O.J. Simpson trial as ambient background noise, which explains everything.
The film bombed so hard it created the Lynch-Fincher 'too weird for 1997' curse that wouldn't break until Mulholland Drive.
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