Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
- drug dealer
- small town
- sexual obsession
- detective
- nightclub
- ear
- surrealism
- psychological abuse
- murder
- drugs
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Isabella Rossellini
Dorothy Vallens
Kyle MacLachlan
Jeffrey Beaumont
Dennis Hopper
Frank Booth
Laura Dern
Sandy Williams
- Hope Lange — Mrs. Williams
- Dean Stockwell — Ben
- George Dickerson — Detective Williams
- Priscilla Pointer — Mrs. Beaumont
- Frances Bay — Aunt Barbara
- Jack Harvey — Mr. Beaumont
- Ken Stovitz — Mike
- Brad Dourif — Raymond
- Jack Nance — Paul
- J. Michael Hunter — Hunter
- Dick Green — Don Vallens
- Directed
- David Lynch
- Written
- David Lynch
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 3,935 ratings
- Studio
- DEG
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
