Lost Highway

4.60
    Lost Highway
    1997

    Synopsis

    A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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    Cast

    • Bill PullmanFred Madison
    • Patricia ArquetteRenee Madison / Alice Wakefield
    • Balthazar GettyPete Dayton
    • Robert BlakeMystery Man
    • Robert LoggiaMr. Eddy / Dick Laurent
    • Michael MasseeAndy
    • Natasha Gregson WagnerSheila
    • Richard PryorArnie
    • Gary BuseyBill Dayton
    • Lucy ButlerCandace Dayton

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Chicago Reader

      Properly speaking, this isn't a movie with characters but with figures, each of them as overblown as a plastic inner tube.
    • 70

      The New Yorker

      The first half of this 1997 movie suffers from abstraction. Still, it's a compelling erotic nightmare.
    • 60

      Variety

      Although uneven and too deliberately obscure in meaning to be entirely satisfying, result remains sufficiently intriguing and startling to bring many of Lynch's old fans back on board for this careening ride.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      Lost Highway, an elaborate hallucination that could never be mistaken for the work of anyone else, finds Mr. Lynch echoing the perversity of "Blue Velvet," the earlier film of his that this most closely resembles.
    • 50

      Christian Science Monitor

      The film actually deserves four stars for its imaginative style and astonishing suspense, zero stars for its shameless exploitation of violent shocks and loveless sensuality.
    • 50

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      David Lynch's eye-popping imagery is buried under an avalanche of self-indulgence.
    • 50

      L.A. Weekly

      It's a soulless and dull bit of showmanship, but it sure sounds profound.
    • 50

      Austin Chronicle

      Lynch, who penned the screenplay with novelist Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart), seems to be attempting to capture not just a sense of place and time (it never works -- Lost Highway is wholly, irrevocably, out of place and without any linear time or time line to speak of), but also a sense of madness.

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