Mulholland Drive (2001)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 8, 2001

Running Time: 146 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: France

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Robert Forster, Brent Briscoe, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Mark Pellegrino, Jeanne Bates, Dan Birnbaum

director: David Lynch

Mulholland Drive

Along Mulholland Drive nothing is what it seems. In the unreal universe of Los Angeles, the city bares its schizophrenic nature, an uneasy blend of innocence and corruption, love and loneliness, beauty and depravity. A woman is left with amnesia following a car accident. An aspiring young actress finds her staying in her aunt's home. The puzzle begins to unfold, propelling us through a mysterious labyrinth of sensual experiences until we arrive at the intersection of dreams and nightmares.

In Mulholland Drive, director David Lynch once again gives us a totally twisted view of love, obsession--and reality.

Story

The plot is a tricky one to explain--we are talking about David Lynch, after all. Without giving away too many of the film's interesting twists, the story basically focuses on two women. First, there's Rita (Laura Harring), a mysterious woman who loses her memory after surviving a car crash on the famed Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. Walking around in a daze, she ends up…