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Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and e... read more read more...rotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but fashionably barren house with his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). Fred suspects that Renee may be unfaithful to him, but realizes he has bigger things to worry about when a series of videotapes appear at his door that prove someone is watching his home from the outside and inside. When Renee is found murdered, Fred finds himself behind bars, but one morning Fred is no longer in his cell. He has seemingly been transformed into Pete Drayton (Balthazar Getty), a young auto mechanic who foolishly allowed himself to get involved with the wife of gangster Dick Laurent (Robert Loggia), a luscious blonde named Alice who looks exactly like Renee. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Directed by: David Lynch

Release Date: February 21, 1997

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  • Deano78
    April 13, 2012
    Deano78
    Another David Lynch film that will baffle you as you try to work out what is real, what isn't, what is going on? It's not quite as strange as some of his other films, but that's not saying much. He does have a slick style though, one film that will make you think about it long af... read moreter viewing.
  • fb1664868775
    March 4, 2012
    fb1664868775
    Underrated and creepy as hell, Lost Highway is two stories mashed together. Robert Blake is one of the scariest things I've ever seen in this one.
  • DragonEyeMorrison
    February 9, 2012
    DragonEyeMorrison
    As years pass by i've started to like this one a lot more. Pullman plays a great lead role, and Robert Blake is pretty damn creepy.
  • stevenecarrier
    April 17, 2011
    stevenecarrier
    "Lost Highway" is weird. It's weird because, for some reason, it's not as alienating as other David Lynch films. Well, don't get me wrong, it's a cold, distant film, but it never stops being mesmerizing. Weather you love or hate Lynch, you simply cannot deny that he is an expert ... read moreat atmosphere and atmosphere is what "Lost Highway" does best. I love movies that use Los Angeles as a character, it's so visually unique and can be quite haunting, and no one knows this better than Lynch. He uses it to such an incredible effect there, too bad the story makes no sense- no, really, it makes no sense. Any meaning you take from this story will be your own interpretation. There are no answers here, like in "Blue Velvet" or "Mulholland Dr." but thankfully it's not as aggravating as "Inland Empire." "Lost Highway" should be seen by hardcore fans of David Lynch or simply to see how versatile the city of Los Angeles can be used on film.
  • ythelastman89
    February 11, 2011
    ythelastman89
    Everything about this movie just was the right kind've bizarre that David Lynch excels at. The narrative is split in the most awkward way possible, which really worked. Who else would've thought a human melting in solitary confinement? It makes perfect sense, only in the world of... read more David Lynch. The acting perfectly stylized as usual. David Lynch always gets these amazing stylized performances that I never get tired of, maybe because they're so subtle and full of different meanings. What I found different about this from David Lynch's other movies is that it's played dead serious. Most of his other work (aside from adaptions) seem to be sarcastic in some way, but this really felt like a great change of pace. There's some messages here and there that seem to suggest poking fun at the viewer, but the story itself is always respected completely. It's very similar to the way that The Seventh Seal has metaphors and suggestive imagery, but on the surface it's still straight-forward.
  • SirPant
    November 2, 2010
    SirPant
    Lost highway is probably my favourite David Lynch film, it's not necessarily his best but it's the one I can happily get lost in the most often. It's suspenseful, quirky and effortlessly cool, I think you either love or hate Lynch's style, personally, I love. I love the Richard P... read moreryor cameo too but what ever happened to Balthazar Getty? He was quite good!
  • gokhale1
    November 1, 2010
    gokhale1
    "Lost Highway" is one of my most favourite films from one of my most favourite directors, David Lynch.

    It is the kind of film that makes you sit up and take notice. It is the kind of film that you simply cannot just sit back, relax, munch some popcorn and watch and then switch... read more off your TV sets and DVD players. If that is the kind of expectation one has, then this movie is simply not for him/her. "Lost Highway" is something that you have to give yourself to, a film that demands the viewer to give complete attention to, so that the experience is fully enjoyed. That is the only way to do justice to this heavily misunderstood Lynch film, which while commercially as well as somewhat critically unsuccessful, still remains not only one of Lynch's best creations, but also one of the best films ever made!

    The story is about Fred Madison (Bill Pullman) who plays the saxophone in a local club. He lives with his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). One day he starts receiving some anonymous video tapes, which seem to contain unclear images of a house. Strange things start to happen then, as he meets mysterious strangers who seem to know him, has haunting visions and bizarre experiences, which do not seem to make any sense.

    As in most of my reviews pertaining to such films, I won't give away anything beyond this! Suffice to say, this is yet another remarkably twisted story from the fantastic mind of David Lynch. And he clearly knows how to tell a story like this, with picture perfect cinematography to create surreal imagery, the brilliant use of sound to give the film that dream-like hallucinatory effect and a haunting music score from Angelo Badalamenti.

    There is some great acting performed by the cast, including Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Garey Busey, Robert Loggia and especially Robert Blake in a very chilling and interesting role.

    Lynch and Barry Gifford pen the script for this eerie and brilliant concept. Lynch, of course, directs with the kind of flair that he has for this kind of cinema and pulls it off like nobody else can.

    The music is excellent. Apart from the original music by Angelo Badalamenti, Barry Adamson and Trent Reznor, there are some great tracks from David Bowie and Rammstein used very appropriately in some of the film's most memorable scenes.


    "Lost Highway" is an abstract work of art, in which pieces are presented to the viewer and he/she is supposed to put them together! When you finally put it all together, you realize there might be alternate angles to the story! And indeed there are: and all theories seem to hold enough water to qualify as valid explanations to the movie! That is the magic of "Lost Highway".

    If you have the taste for some serious avant-garde cinema, if you like movies with weird, strange, unreal stories in which nothing is explicitly explained; if it intrigues you to know that this is the kind of film in which the film-makers choose to leave certain blanks for the audience to fill instead of spoon-feeding everything to them, then this one comes highly recommended!
  • hobster1
    October 20, 2009
    hobster1
    Bizarre film noir about a jazz saxophonist and his wife who begin receiving mysterious video tapes from someone who appears to be filming them while they sleep. Typically Lynchian, surrealist film kicks off with one of the creepiest set ups ever filmed, then trashes that story a... read morend completely falls apart. Fascinating first half gives way to a narratively baffling second half. Identities change, characters disappear and sexual encounters occur without even a trace of eroticism. A deeply flawed film, but the initial neo-noir mood is so hypnotic and spooky, it cannot be dismissed.
  • fb619846742
    July 2, 2009
    fb619846742
    A twisting, turning, utterly confusing yet often arresting story concerning a musician caught in the middle of a murder case, and how his mind enacts different personalities and bends reality to fit his twisted outlook on his life. You should expect nothing less from David Lynch,... read more who has a knack for telling stories in a unique and confusing way. To me, his classic "Blue Velvet" is entirely overrated, while "Mulholland Drive" is a classic that deserves to be seen. To me, "Mulholland Drive" did a better job creating suspense, not to mention the performances were outstanding. Here, the performances are sub-par, Pullman is a fine fit as the lead character, as is Arquette as his wife, but Getty is too boring and unemotional, while Robert Loggia is completely over the top, although Robert Blake gives a memorable, creepy performance as a mystery man. While, like with many Lynch movies, you'll have to do some extra digging and researching as to what the whole movie means, this is still a decent movie, not great, but watchable if you like these kinds of movies. I liked it up to a point, but some things definitely could've been sharpened a bit more.
  • groaningbitch
    April 22, 2009
    groaningbitch
    "lost highway" is actually not as incomprehesible as most people think by first-time viewing, and it's probably the most "linear" storytelling of lynch, a zigsaw awaiting to be jointed together. from my perception, it's about a night-club jazz musician's suspicion upon his wife w... read moreho constantly cheats on him and possibly an underground amateur porn actress. so the betrayed hubby sets his way to brutally slaughter all the cuckolds involved, then escaping the police as well as his chaotic life forever in the lost highway. the rest is his nightmarish imaginations of love, lust, self-loathe and hate. so he dreams of killing his wife to be sentenced to electric chair to be redeemed/rejunvenized as a stud-like young dude who gets laid around, particularly the blonde seductress who resembles his estranged wife (in reality, he's so traumatized by doubts that he cannot even consummate the intercourse, ain't we always dream what we can't have?). but when the issue of the woman's promiscuous treacheries occur, the gleeful dreams of erotica awakens by the gruesome reality as he gazes her orgastic expressions on the pornographic screen, shame and humiliation start to take over in its way to torment him. then he retreats to his impotent older true self after the young dude makes love and exclaims "i want you" repeatedly...the response is leanly echoed, as our femme fatale whispers insidiously "you will never have me!"(truth revelt.)...all this wronged husband could do is to obliterate his rival who disgraces him. at the last scene, he talks to the doorgate speaker "dillon is dead!"(as if his mission is completed) then drives toward the highways to get lost for good since his affections cannot be requited and his possessive lust cannot be fulfilled despite he revengefully gets riddance of his symbol of shame in the middle of desert.

    patricia arquette shall be one of the hottest actresses in the 90s, ideal incarnation of neo-femme-fatale, blonde bombshell and the gritty it girl with edges. she has to bare and dangle her tits over 5 men within this movie, from young to old, handsome to ugly(they're all lucky bastards. ha)...it surely does transmit a daredevil raw sensuality like a contemporary barbara stanwyck without hesitant pretension but brazenly unlimited sesuality while she struts naked in her immaculate luring body. spicy furry red heels or leopard short-jacket, any overly gaudy clothings just look right on her. she even has a bettie page reminiscence hairdo at the start.(everything about this woman is all sexualized.) in one moment, she even poses a gun to tease the man and tells him to stick it into his pants(what an obvious insinuation), and she wears leopard jacket like woman predator with a residual of vintage glamour. which actress in the 90s or 2000s could rival THAT? patricia arquette is the coolest postmodern femme fatale/phallic woman could ever be in the pinnacle of the prime stage of 1990s.

    bill pullman is a mighty surprise since he was the typecasting of mr. right in those 90s chic flicks. and belthazar getty does have it-boy aura of marlon brando in "the wild one" with his leather jacket and the big harley. (david lynch must love those archetypes since the vintage hollywood hommage appears even stronger in muholland dr.) "lost highway" would probably be the best neo-noir ever made in 1990s(letting alone the tarentino jokes) as well as lynch's most contagious work so far since it has one of the best soundtrack in contemporary cinematic history when industrial rock'n'roll weds so gluingly with improvised jazz.

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Critic Reviews

Mike Clark
January 1, 2000
Mike Clark, USA Today

Visually arresting, the movie does keep you going until the finale confirms suspicions that Lynch has painted himself into a corner.

Sarah Wenk
January 2, 2011
Sarah Wenk, Common Sense Media

Strange, disjointed; full of sex and violence. Full Review

Rob Nelson
August 20, 2009
Rob Nelson, City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Here, the road leads nowhere in particular; what you pay for is the ride. Full Review

Sean Gandert
July 31, 2008
Sean Gandert, Paste Magazine

What Lost Highway lacks in originality--compared to the rest of Lynch's oeuvre--it regains when compared to anyone else's films.

Steve Biodrowski
July 11, 2008
Steve Biodrowski, ESplatter

Its demented darkness actually coallesces into a strange kind of giddy joy - not unlike the rush of adrenaline one feels after a brush with danger. Full Review

Jeremiah Kipp
April 1, 2008
Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazine

It's pensive male anxiety, and for some cultural reason it's easier for audiences to accept female hysteria than the insecurities of men. Full Review

Rob Gonsalves
March 11, 2008
Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com

Mesmerizing yet cold and remote -- an exotic fish we can't touch. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
January 24, 2007
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

The film begins promisingly, when a young couple gets paranoid over intrusion into their home, before turning into a bizarre yarn that many viewers will find confusing; even so Lynch's direction is me... Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson
October 29, 2006
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

It's one of the downright spookiest films I've ever seen, and it gives me chills just to recall it. Full Review

Leo Goldsmith
August 7, 2006
Leo Goldsmith, Not Coming to a Theater Near You

With the hindsight of Mulholland Dr, the film is a lot more intelligible, with plenty of Lynchian themes in full blossom and a handful of excellent performances. Full Review

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