Lost Highway (1997)
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59% of critics liked it
(41 reviews) -
86% of users liked it
(55,702 ratings)
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 erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but… More 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 erotic 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
- Directed By
- David Lynch
- Written By
- David Lynch, Barry Gifford
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
- In Theaters
- Feb 21, 1997 Wide
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Sarah Wenk, Common Sense Media
Strange, disjointed; full of sex and violence.
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Rob Nelson, City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Here, the road leads nowhere in particular; what you pay for is the ride.
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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.
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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.
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Jeremiah Kipp, Slant Magazine
We still await the definitive DVD release of Lost Highway, a film crying out for rediscovery.
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Cast
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Bill Pullman
as Fred Madison
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Patricia Arquette
as Alice Wakefield, Renee Madison
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Balthazar Getty
as Pete Dayton
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Robert Blake
as Mystery Man
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Robert Loggia
as Mr. Eddy/Dick Laurent
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Natasha Gregson Wagner
as Sheila
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Richard Pryor
as Arnie
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Gary Busey
as Bill Dayton
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Scott Coffey
as Teddy
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Lou Eppolito
as Ed
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Jack Kehler
as Guard Johnny Mack
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Michael Massee
as Andy
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Jack Nance
as Phi
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John Roselius
as Al
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Gene Ross
as Warden Clements
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Henry Rollins
as Guard Henry
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Lisa Boyle
as Marian
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Marilyn Manson
as Porn actor
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Twiggy Ramirez
as Porn actor
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Jennifer Syme
as Junkie Girl


