David Lynch’s postmodern suburban nightmare was the director’s critical and commercial breakthrough, introducing his uniquely twisted vision and offbeat humour to a wider audience. Returning to his picture-perfect hometown after his father suffers a stroke, clean-cut, Hardy Boy-ish hero Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle McLachlan) discovers a severed ear in a field, and is soon plunged into the depraved world beyond the white picket fence. Allied with the impossibly blonde girl next door (Laura Dern), entranced by a mysterious nightclub chanteuse (Isabella Rossellini), and threatened by a psycho sucking amyl nitrite from a gas mask (Dennis Hopper), Jeffrey finds that the line between hero and villain, detective and pervert is exceedingly fine.

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