Mulholland Drive |  | Director: David Lynch
Actors: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: Movie
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Rating:  1027 reviews
Sales Rank: 24945
Genre: Art House
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 148 Minutes
ASIN: B000IEXVCC
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 2001
Release Date: September 6, 2006
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| Synopsis:
This sexy thriller has been acclaimed as one of the year's best films. Two beautiful women are caught up in a lethally twisted mystery - and ensnared in an equally dangerous web of erotic passion. "There's nothing like this baby anywhere! This sinful pleasure is a fresh triumph for Lynch, and one of the best films of the year. Visionary daring, swooning eroticism and colors that pop like a whore's lip gloss!" says Rolling Stone's Peter Travers. "See it, then see it again!" |
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 MESSMERIZING August 28, 2010
STEVEN C (STOCKTON)
WHATEVER LYNCH WAS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN ALL HIS OTHER FILMS HE GOT IT IN MULLHOLLAND DRIVE. PLAYED OUT JUST LIKE A DREAM AND WAS IN MY OPINION JUST THAT.
RIGHT AFTER THE OPENING JITTERBUG DANCE YOU SEE RED SHEETS AND ALL ELSE ISSUES FORTH FROM THAT.
A PERSONS LIFE PASSING BEFORE THEM BEFORE THEY DIE IN RANDOM ORDER WITH INTERCONNECTING IDENTITIES
BRILLANT
 pseudo-surreal boredom August 16, 2010
sakara (backwoods pa)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
director david lynch is like some little kid...he has poor ann miller looking at dog excrement, and another 15 minutes later has somebody spitting out coffee onto a napkin.
look at me, look at me, i'm soooo surreal!
Truly spectacular- but there will be haters! July 19, 2010
S. D. Levit (Los Angles, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Best movie of the decade- haters analyzed!, July 19, 2010
By S. D. Levit (Los Angles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mulholland Drive [VHS] (VHS Tape)
OK, so I won't get into the plot again. Suffice it to say that there will always be haters of this masterpiece, just like there will always be haters of "2001, A Space Odyssey", and others of its ilk. Why? Because some people just want to be entertained, and be spoon-fed a story that they don't have to put any effort into understanding. They tend to get angry about things that they can't understand easily. Yes, this movie is just about impossible to fully understand, or put together, on the first viewing (unless you read about it ahead of time, and that really does take away all the fun). Aside from the "surrealistic" symbolism, the story is not told in a linear fashion. This is rendered further complex because you don't realize the extent of this until the movie is over. Not that the ending explains anything, like, for example, it does in "The Sixth Sense". In "Mulholland Drive", the ending doesn't truly explain anything. You have to put it together. Yes, when I saw it the first time it was a total mind screw that I did not understand. But, it was so compelling that I simply had to figure it out. So, after reading reviews, discussions with others, and rewatching, I began to see it clearly. The more times I watched it (over a period of time) the more its magnificence (yes, magnificence) unraveled in a way that was absolutely mesmerizing! If you were a fan of the TV show "Lost", and tend to like stories that you have to put in mental effort to figure out, then this is the film for you. It is innovative, rich, powerful, emotional, intense, stark, erotic, and so incredibly sad. Naomi Watts- phenomenal in what is ultimately revealed to be an extremely complex and difficult role to play. The beauty of this film is the unique was that it will ultimately unravel for you, bit by bit. But again, you have to be the type that likes that sort of thing. Kind of like a classicist looking at modern art for the first time, and simply dismissing it as stupid- that is who the haters are, and I get that. Doesn't necessarily make any sense at first viewing. But to me, the fact that Lynch's mind came up with such a fascinating and completely different way of telling a story is what gives the movie its true value. It made most critics lists of the top 10 films of the decade (2000-2010) and deservedly so. But if you are the kind who simply wants to have a story told to you without having to put in any of yourself, don't bother, you won't like it. Not a judgement; simply a fact.
Should Lynch fans be excited? Yes. July 18, 2010
Thomas Moyer
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I first heard that David Lynch was turning his rejected television pilot into a movie, I was a little skeptical. I thought it would be like the pilot of Twin Peaks that they was shot for release in French movie theaters. Anyone who has seen it knows what I'm talking about. They take the greatest pilot of all time and try to wrap it all up in three scenes. It's pretty bad, but at least it got Lynch to create The Man From Another Place.
David Lynch added the end scenes on Twin Peaks because of a deal that was written into his contract. Thankfully he wanted to finish Mulholland Drive properly. Instead of adding three scenes, he was given seven million dollars to flesh out the ninety-minute pilot into a two-and-a-half-hour movie.
The result is getting David Lynch some of his best reviews since Blue Velvet. Words like masterpiece and brilliant are being thrown around. Even Roger Ebert, who hates all of Lynch's films, gives it a four star rating.
The movie is broken down into several stories. First off we have a limo that is driving on Mulholland Drive, with the license plate of 2GAT123. In the back of the limo is a woman. The driver stops the limo, pulls out a gun, and makes the woman get out of her car. Then some rowdy teenagers get drunk and crash their jeep into the limo. After the dust settles the woman is only one left alive, but she has amensia.
The woman, frightened, looks for shelter. She sneaks into an empty apartment, and sleeps there. The apartment the woman sneaks into belongs to an movie actress. The movie actress leaves for Canada and gives her apartment to her young niece Betty.
Betty played by Naomi Watts is a young woman who just arrived in California and dreams of being a big movie star; she would rather people recognize her as a good actress, but the trick is to be both.
Anyway, Betty finds the woman in the bathroom shower. Betty thinks the woman is a friend of her aunt's. Then the woman sees a old movie poster on the wall, starring Rita Hayworth, so the woman starts calling herself Rita.
Rita is played by Laura Elena Harring. She lays down on the bed, and goes to sleep, even though Betty thinks she should go to the hospital after she notices the large gash on her head.
Suddenly there's a bunch of phone calls. All relaying the message that the woman is gone. The final call goes to a mob boss, who speaking of The Man From Another Place, is played by Michael J. Anderson. The mob boss sits on his throne, separated from the world by a glass booth.
The mob boss also has his big toe stuck in the movies. He sends two goons over to a meeting with a young director. Adam, the director, is played by Justin Theroux. What follows is a great scene. One of the goons, the one played by Dan Heyda tells Adam that he must cast Mellisa George as the lead actress. Adam tells him no, and storms out of the meetings. Soon all of Adam's credit cards stop working.
Most of the time is spent on either Betty or Rita, or Adam the director. Betty finds out the truth about Rita, but is so nice she doesn't want to call the police, she wants to help Rita, even after she finds the strange things in her purse.
Adam, who resembles Charlie Chaplin with his odd movements and bits of silence, encounters threats and meets many odd characters all telling him to put Mellisa George in his movie.
So the beautiful roommates try to figure out Rita's past life. Betty tries to land a part in a movie, and Rita has to hide from the people she thinks are after her.
That only happens in the first half-hour. We get only more plot from there. The thing is though, with Mulholland Drive, you don't really know if they are spoilers are not. If you were to read a plot synopsis of Lost Highway would anything be spoiled?
Sorry it took me this long to see this film July 6, 2010
Ausar (Pennsylvania)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It was a great movie. My wife and I didn't really know much about it, just been told many times to see it. We "figured it out" in one viewing (spoiler: the first half of the movie is a dream, she's jealous, etc). The bad reviews here are a real ego boost for us, lol! The more passionately written ones are the best. Funny how much people will hate something they are too stupid to understand. And no, just getting the plot doesn't count as 'understanding' any piece of art. Learn to appreciate subtlety because it can conceal a great bit from the uncurious.
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