Blue Velvet

Name: Blue Velvet
Director: David Lynch
Released: 1986

David Lynch

1986

4.00

Synopsis

Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.

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Kyle MacLachlanJeffrey Beaumont
Isabella RosselliniDorothy Vallens
Laura DernSandy Williams
Dennis HopperFrank Booth
Hope LangeMrs. Williams
Dean StockwellBen
George DickersonDetective Williams
Priscilla PointerMrs. Beaumont
Frances BayAunt Barbara
Jack HarveyMr. Beaumont

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100
The New York Times
As fascinating as it is freakish. It confirms Mr. Lynch's stature as an innovator, a superb technician, and someone best not encountered in a dak alley. [19 September 1986]
100
Los Angeles Times
The most brilliantly disturbing film ever to have its roots in small-town American life. [19 September 1986, Calendar, p.6-1]
88
Chicago Tribune
One powerful, mesmerizing thriller, a masterful exercise in controlling an audience's attention. [19 September 1986, Friday, p.A]
80
Film.com
An exhilarating piece of popular entertainment.
80
Variety
Hopper creates a flabbergasting portrait of unrepentent, irredeemable evil.
67
Austin Chronicle
You either think it's dementedly wild at heart or a lost highway to nowhere.
50
Chicago Reader
It's mostly fascinating, though the unconverted may be in for a rough two hours.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Dark, menacing and sexual, with satanic overtones, like a Black Sabbath song, with many moments of genuine fright and harsh eroticism. [19 September 1986, Daily Notebook, p.76]

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