Lost Highway (R)
Cast: Richard Pryor, Lucy Butler, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette
Release Date: February 21, 1997
Runtime: 2 hr. 15 mins.
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Lost Highway, David Lynch's seventh feature film, travels down a twisting road of perverse menace as a jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) and his wife (Patricia Arquette) begin receiving disturbing VHS tapes - leading to jealousy, murder, and a startling mid-act transformation that radically recontextualizes everything that came before it. Berserk violence, scrambled identities, a thunderous industrial soundtrack, and one of cinema's most memorable Mystery Men (Robert Blake) - Lynch swirls it all into a screeching psychological manifestation of guilt, trauma, and denial that ranks among his most potent cinematic nightmares.
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Lost Highway, David Lynch's seventh feature film, travels down a twisting road of perverse menace as a jazz saxophonist (Bill Pullman) and his wife (Patricia Arquette) begin receiving disturbing VHS tapes - leading to jealousy, murder, and a startling mid-act transformation that radically recontextualizes everything that came before it. Berserk violence, scrambled identities, a thunderous industrial soundtrack, and one of cinema's most memorable Mystery Men (Robert Blake) - Lynch swirls it all into a screeching psychological manifestation of guilt, trauma, and denial that ranks among his most potent cinematic nightmares.