15 certificateMulholland Drive is a Film programme that first aired in 2001 and has been classified a 15 certificate.

Mulholland Drive is a 4 star programme

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Mulholland Drive (2001)

Directed by
David Lynch

Director David Lynch calls this 2001 psychological thriller "a love story in the city of dreams". It's noir, romance, thriller and drama... but even that doesn't sufficiently explain the plot.

Blonde Betty (Naomi Watts, pictured, left) arrives in Hollywood to stay in her aunt's empty apartment and audition for the movies. Rita (Laura Harring, pictured, right) is the brunette who escapes a mob murder when she crawls out of her crashed car on Mulholland Drive and stumbles into the same apartment with bruises and no memory.

The film is partly a story of the two women trying to trace Rita's identity, and partly a surreal, blackly comic look at Hollywood itself. It features pretentious moviemakers, coffee-crazy mobsters, wealthy dwarves, inept hitmen, tramps, psychics and cowboys. It is, in short, extremely odd.

Lynch, the man behind Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart, originally conceived Mulholland Drive as a TV series, similar to his sprawling Twin Peaks. However ABC TV executives rejected the pilot. However, having secured additional funding from French distributor Studio Canal, Lynch was able to shoot new scenes to wrap up the open ending and to turn the pilot into a feature film. Lynch received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and he won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Genre: Film

Production Year: 2001

Rating:
4/5 Stars

Classification: 15 Certificate

Production Country: USA/France

Filmed in Colour

Cast

Image for Naomi WattsNaomi Watts...Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn
Image for Laura HarringLaura Harring...Rita/Camilla Rhodes
Ann Miller...Catherine 'Coco' Lenoix
Dan Hedaya...Vincenzo Castigliane
Image for Justin TherouxJustin Theroux...Adam Kesher
Brent Briscoe...Det. Neal Domgaard
Image for Robert ForsterRobert Forster...Det. Harry McKnight
Katharine Towne...Cynthia Jenzen
Lee Grant...Louise Bonner
Scott Coffey...Wilkins
Image for Billy Ray CyrusBilly Ray Cyrus...Gene
Chad Everett...Jimmy Katz
Rita Taggart...Linney James
James Karen...Wally Brown
Lori Heuring...Lorraine Kesher