Blue Velvet

1986 "It's a strange world."

Blue Velvet

7.7 | 2h0m | R | en | Drama

Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.

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7.7 | 2h0m | R | en | Drama , Thriller , Crime | More Info

Released: September. 19,1986 | Released Producted By: DEG , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Kyle MacLachlan , Isabella Rossellini , Laura Dern

Director

Patricia Norris

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Cast

Kyle MacLachlan

as Jeffrey Beaumont

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Laura Dern

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Reviews

denzil-09434 A great cast wasted in this self indulgent, rambling, waste of time. Plenty of faux symbolism, significant of nothing.

geordiesdad This review is not at all fair as I only watched the first half of the movie but the absolutely DREADFUL AMATEURISH acting of Kyle MacLachlan put me off SO MUCH I was unable to watch the rest. The story is quite good and the other actors are at least 'performing' but Kyle's 'style'...if it is intentional, seems more like a first read-through than a completed job. I realize he's still VERY junior in his acting career at this point but WHY ON EARTH was such an unskilled amateur given such a major role? I'm sorry for the incomplete review and as such it is not really a valid one but with a performance as shoddy as his something has to be said.

Eric Stevenson This movie has become notorious or should I should say Roger Ebert has become notorious. This is the highest rated movie ever made that Ebert gave one star to. This has a 94% on RottenTomatoes and what do you know? I happen to be among the 94% who like it. This is David Lynch's best movie and it's actually one of the least surreal. All of the characters are so likeable in this.You have the main character, Jeffrey who falls in love with two women. What's amazing is that they manage to make both of these women very likeable characters. It's to the point where you don't really care which one he ends up with as it's a win-win situation. Frank Booth played by Dennis Hopper is simply amazing. What makes this villain so effective is that he's literally the only character who says the f-word except for literally ONE instance and that's by someone who's paraphrasing him! This is a great way of using bad language effectively. It makes the villain all the more menacing.I believe there was a magazine (possibly "Empire"?) that ranked this as the best movie of the 1980's. Well, they listed a bunch of movies and this was the highest ranked one from the 1980's. It's in fact the best film I've seen for Cult Month. It starts off by showing a severed ear. That's quite a funny coincidence as I just saw "The Fly" which had a scene where Jeff Goldblum's ear came off. Hey, it was Jeff Goldblum's ear! ****

dissident320 This movie had been on my to-watch list for probably 10 years. I have seen the majority of Lynch's movies but some of the older ones had eluded me for some reason. Really glad I finally watched it. Out of the gate: The remastered version looks fantastic. Vivid colours and doesn't look the least bit dated. Even the fashion is pretty understated for an 80s movie. Kyle MacLachlan plays kind of a moon-eyed young adult that gets in a little over his head. Laura Dern has such a wonderful understated performance as well. Which was that much more enjoyable knowing that she went on to do much more intense and at times crazy characters. Dennis Hopper is playing a villain type that he certainly revisit a few times in his career. But here he is full of menace rather than Super Mario Bros super-villain. He's sadistic, violent and frightening. While at the same time seeming to enjoy himself. Probably the only performance I wasn't that impressed was Isabella Rossellini's. She has her moments but her anguish at times felt a bit like soap- opera acting. The story overall moves along quite well and this is one of Lynch's more straight-forward movies. I was slightly disappointed that I wasn't surprised by anything that happened. The ending was quite conventional if you compare it to some of his later works. But it's still such a great story told in that 'Lynchian' way that I couldn't help but thoroughly enjoy it.