Blue Velvet
1986 · TMDB 7.6
Directed by David Lynch
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Why it matters
Lynch's suburban noir, forty years old this month, in which a severed ear leads Kyle MacLachlan from a white-picket home into a red-lit underworld ruled by Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth. Isabella Rossellini's Dorothy is the film's wounded centre, and Roy Orbison has never sounded s...
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Released
- 1986-09-19
- Studio
- DEG
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.6
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