Number 249 on IMDb's Top 250
A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio. Hilarity ensues all over the place.
Trivia: Originally filmed in 1999 on a budget of $8 million as a made-for-TV pilot, new scenes were filmed one year later on a $7 million budget given by the French film studio Studio Canal to wrap up the open ending which had been left unresolved in the original version so that a TV series could follow. Lynch cast TV soap actresses for many of the female roles. By coincidence, Naomi Watts (Diane/Betty), Melissa George (Camilla Rhodes), and Elizabeth Lackey (Carol) were all in the Australian series "Home and Away" (1988).
Its actually pretty amazing that this was originally intended as a pilot for a television series (or at least the first 95 minutes of it) because it doesn't look like a television show. It does explain the twists and turns the movie took after that first 95 minutes, which was family safe although a little confusing. The second half was definitely not family safe, the two beautiful leads (Naomi Watts and Laura Harring) become lovers. This is one of those movies that you don't understand until the day after you see it. The more I think about it the more I like it. It does make you wonder where the story would have gone if it had been a full blown television show, because it would not have been like the movie. Naomi Watts really, really impressed me in one scene (actually two). She is a young actress who has just arrived in town and gets an audition, she rehearses it one way with Laura Harring, then when she gets to the audition, they changes some of the parameters so that she has to do the scene completely different, when she is finished I swear my jaw was hanging down and I was thinking, "Wow, this was for television?" So, if you like shows like Twin Peaks that have weird twisting tales that make you think, then this movie is for you. Oh yeah, and any film with Billy Ray Cyrus in it can't bee that bad...can it? (He was actually pretty funny, and then got his butt kicked, it's all good.)
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Doesn't Jennifer Connelly make an appearance too?
well, no, that would have vaulted it up to legendary status for me. Ummmm....Jennifer Connelly {drools}
I think you are thinking of Mulholland Falls, which I have just added to my netflix queue, I didn't know Jennifer Connelly was in it.
You will be drooling a lot more after watching that Will ;)
OK, I just watched this movie since it's been on my want to see list. I find that there's movies that you review that I want to see from what you've said. What in the heck is this movie about and why in the heck did you like it. I was so confused the first time I watched it that I rewatched the ending (from when they switch roles) again just to figure out what it was about. Ummmmm, I don't get it. I'm thinking my intellegence level on this movie is way, way down. Then again, I didn't watch Twin Peaks, so I'm not so sure what David Lynch is all about. So, I do believe I just waisted a few hours of my life. Oh well. I'll get them back some other way. :o)
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