Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive (stylized as Mulholland Dr.) is a 2001 surrealist neo-noir mystery art film written and directed by David Lynch. Its plot follows an aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) who arrives in Los Angeles, where she befriends a woman (Laura Harring) who is suffering from amnesia after a car accident. The film follows several other vignettes and characters, including a Hollywood director (Justin Theroux) who encounters mob interference while casting for his latest film. Lynch's tagline for the film is "a love story in the city of dreams".
Plot
A woman is about to be shot by her chauffeur, but is saved when a car crashes into them at night on Mulholland Drive. The woman is the sole survivor. Dazed, she hides in a vacant apartment. The next morning, Betty Elms, an aspiring actress from Deep River, Ontario, arrives at the apartment, which her aunt has lent her. She finds the woman, who has amnesia but remembers she is in danger. The woman adopts the name "Rita" from a Gilda poster featuring Rita Hayworth. Betty and Rita discover a large quantity of cash and a blue key in Rita's purse.
Awards
Cast
- Angelo Badalamenti
- Ann Miller
- Billy Ray Cyrus
- Brent Briscoe
- Chad Everett
- Dan Hedaya
- Geno Silva
- James Karen
- Jeanne Bates
- Justin Theroux
- Katharine Towne
- Laura Harring
- Lee Grant
- Lisa Lackey
- Lori Heuring
- Mark Pellegrino
- Melissa George
- Michael Des Barres
- Michael Fairman
- Michael J. Anderson
- Michele Hicks
- Naomi Watts
- Patrick Fischler
- Rena Riffel
- Richard Green
- Robert Forster
- Scott Coffey
- Tony Longo
- Vincent Castellanos
- William Ostrander
More details
| author | David Lynch |
|---|---|
| award | César Award for Best Foreign Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Los Angeles Mulholland Drive |
| director | David Lynch |
| editor | Mary Sweeney |
| events | agency amnesia chance discontinuity dream and reality identity liberty necessity oneirism personal identity self-concept |
| genre | mystery |
| keywords | car crash casting agent date gilda horrify inherit kill meet morning personal assistant phone book pick up rebekah del rio remember return home rita hayworth sole survivor stage show struggle sunset boulevard terrorize traumatize vanish |
| musicBy | Angelo Badalamenti |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Director |
| producer | Alain Sarde Mary Sweeney Michael Polaire Neal Edelstein Tony Krantz |
| productionCompany | Asymmetrical Productions Babbo Inc. Le Studio Canal+ Les Films Alain Sarde The Picture Factory |
| publisher | Universal Pictures via Universal Focus |
| theme | art filmmaking independent narrative neo-noir surreal |