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Lost Highway
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1377
- IMDb #866
- Google retired #2441
- Rotten Tomatoes #1765
- Metacritic #2109
- Letterboxd #358
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2759
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #888
- Metacritic Critics #3142
- Metacritic Audience #520
- Criticker #429
- Douban #582
- Kinopoisk #1643
- AlloCiné #883
- Trakt #1055
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 53, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 87. Critics average 62, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A jazz saxophonist receives a series of mysterious videotapes on his doorstep that show the interior of his own home. He is eventually convicted of murdering his wife, a crime he cannot remember. In his prison cell, he undergoes a bizarre physical transformation and is inexplicably released, now living a different life as a young mechanic. This new identity becomes entangled with a gangster and his seductive girlfriend, leading him down a sinister path that loops back to his original reality.
Details
- Director
- David Lynch
- Writers
- Barry Gifford, David Lynch
- Studio
- CiBy 2000, Asymmetrical Productions
- Released
- 15 January 1997
- Country
- France, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $3.9M
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Cast
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Awards
4 wins & 6 nominations total
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