
Lost Highway(1997)
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.


“A love story in the city of dreams.”
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

Naomi Watts
Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn

Laura Harring
Rita / Camilla Rhodes

Justin Theroux
Adam

Ann Miller
Coco

Mark Pellegrino
Joe

Robert Forster
Detective McKnight

Dan Hedaya
Vincenzo Castigliane

Angelo Badalamenti
Luigi Castigliane

Patrick Fischler
Dan

Brent Briscoe
Detective Domgaard
Mulholland Drive is a thriller, drama, mystery film released in 2001 exploring themes of amnesia, loss of sense of reality, schizophrenia, nightmare, hitman, suppressed past. Directed by David Lynch, it stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux. Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
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