A lost road on the edge of strange...
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
DramaThrillerMysteryprisonpornographyjealousydreamsdual identitynightmarepolicesexual frustrationgangsterinsanityparanoiaprison cell
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Grave, open-ended, prestige and bleak.
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Patricia ArquetteRenee Madison / Alice Wakefield
- Bill PullmanFred Madison
- Balthazar GettyPete Dayton
- Robert BlakeMystery Man
- Robert LoggiaMr. Eddy / Dick Laurent
- Michael MasseeAndy
- Natasha Gregson WagnerSheila
- Richard PryorArnie
- Gary BuseyBill Dayton
- Lucy ButlerCandace Dayton
Crew
- David LynchDirector
- Barry GiffordWriter
- David LynchWriter
- Peter DemingDirector of Photography
- Angelo BadalamentiOriginal Music Composer
- Mary SweeneyEditor
- Tom SternbergProducer
- Mary SweeneyProducer
- Deepak NayarProducer
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