
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.



Zac Efron
Jack Jansen

Matthew McConaughey
Ward Jansen

Nicole Kidman
Charlotte Bless

David Oyelowo
Yardley Acheman

Macy Gray
Anita / Narrator

John Cusack
Hillary Van Wetter

Scott Glenn
W.W. Jansen

Ned Bellamy
Tyree van Wetter

Nealla Gordon
Ellen Guthrie

Edrick Browne
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