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Blue Velvet is a 1986 American mystery, thriller, drama, and neo-noir film written and directed by David Lynch. The production was produced by Dino De Laurentiis through the Dino De Laurentiis Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures and Netflix. The cast includes Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern. Angelo Badalamenti composed the score, while Frederick Elmes served as director of photography and Duwayne Dunham as film editor. Patricia Norris was the production designer, and the film was shot on 35 mm film in Wilmington.
The movie has a runtime of 120 or 121 minutes and was released on September 19, 1986. It was produced with a budget of 6,000,000 and generated box office revenue of 8,663,268 or 8,636,706. The film received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. Audience ratings include a 7.7 score on IMDb based on 246,054 votes and a 7.607 average on TMDb from 3,815 votes. The original motion picture soundtrack was released in 1986.
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7.6The 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.
Cast
- Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens
- Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont
- Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth
- Laura Dern as Sandy Williams
- Hope Lange as Mrs. Williams
- Dean Stockwell as Ben
Themes
- drug dealer
- small town
- sexual obsession
- detective
- nightclub
- ear
- surrealism
- psychological abuse
- murder
- drugs
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Encyclopedic overview
Blue Velvet is a 1986 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by David Lynch. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, and is named after the 1951 song of the same name. The film follows a college student (MacLachlan) who returns to his hometown and discovers a severed human ear in a field, which leads him to uncover a criminal conspiracy involving a troubled nightclub singer (Rossellini).
Lynch's screenplay of Blue Velvet had been passed around multiple times in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with several major studios declining it due to its strong sexual and violent content. After the failure of his 1984 film Dune, Lynch made attempts at developing a more "personal story", somewhat characteristic of the surrealist style displayed in his first film Eraserhead (1977). The independent studio De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, owned at the time by Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, agreed to finance and produce the film.
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