Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. Blending psychological horror with film noir, the film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, and is named after the 1951 song of the same name. The film concerns a young college student who, returning home to visit his ill father, discovers a severed human ear in a field. The ear then leads him to uncover a vast criminal conspiracy, and enter into a romantic relationship with a troubled lounge singer.
Plot
College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina after his father, Tom, has a near-fatal attack from a medical condition. Walking home from the hospital, Jeffrey cuts through a vacant lot and discovers a severed human ear, which he takes to police detective John Williams. Williams' daughter Sandy tells Jeffrey that the ear somehow relates to a lounge singer named Dorothy Vallens. Intrigued, Jeffrey, posing as a pest exterminator, enters her apartment. While there, he steals a spare key while she is distracted by a man in a distinctive yellow sport coat, whom Jeffrey nicknames the "Yellow Man".
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author | David Lynch |
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award | Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award |
contentLocation | North Carolina |
director | David Lynch |
editor | Duwayne Dunham |
genre | crime horror mystery thriller |
keywords | abduct beat blue velvet cheat college student criminal empire drug dealer drug dealing drug lord evidence room frank booth hide in dreams kill lip-sync meet morning nightclub act open police detective police raid police station psychopath roy orbison sadomasochism sadomasochistic secret lover selling drugs sever sex slavery sexual relationship shoot sport coat steal strip walk walkie-talkie wound |
musicBy | Angelo Badalamenti |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Director |
producer | Fred C. Caruso |
publisher | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group |
recordedAt | North Carolina |
theme | film noir independent mystery thriller neo-noir psychological horror psychological thriller |