"David Lynch’s postmodern suburban nightmare was the director’s critical and commercial breakthrough, introducing his uniquely twisted vision and offbeat humour to a wider audience. Returning to his picture-perfect hometown after his father suffers a stroke, clean-cut, Hardy Boy-ish hero Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers a severed ear in a field and is soon plunged into the depraved world beyond the white picket fence. Allied with the girl next door (Laura Dern), entranced by a mysterious nightclub chanteuse (Isabella Rossellini), and threatened by a man sucking amyl nitrite from a gas mask (Dennis Hopper), Jeffrey finds that the line between hero and villain, and detective and pervert, is exceedingly fine." TIFF