BLUE VELVET

Year: 1986
UK: Columbia Tristar Films (UK)
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell, Hope Lange, Priscilla Pointer, George Dickerson, Frances Bay, Ken Stovitz, Brad Dourif, Jack Nance, Jack Harvey, J Michael Hunter, Dick Green, Fred Pickler, Philip Markert, Leonard Watkins, Moses Gibson, Selden Smith, Peter Carew, Jon Jon Snipes, Angelo Badalamenti, Jean-Pierre Viale, Donald Moore, A Michelle Depland, Michelle Sasser, Katie Reid
Director: David Lynch
Country: USA
UK: 120 mins
UK Certificate: 18 contains strong sex, violence and language
UK Release Date: 14 December 2001 (Re-release)

Synopsis

'It's a strange world'!

In this bizarrely repellent, kinky thriller, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the police detective's daughter Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious cabaret singer Dorothy Valence (Isabella Rossellini), involved with a violent and perversely evil man Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).

The film's painful realism reminds us that we are not immune to the disturbing events which transpire in BLUE VELVET's sleepy community. There is a darker side of life waiting for us all.

The 1986 David Lynch, multiple award winning classic, BLUE VELVET starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern is re-released in the UK. Fifteen years since the film's original theatrical release and a generation later the film has again been rated 18 in the UK. Named best film of the year by the US National Society of Film Critics, this is one of cinema's true masterpieces - love it or hate it, BLUE VELVET cannot be ignored.