Taglines: Meet Laura Palmer… In a town where nothing is as it seems… And everyone has something to hide.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is the prequel to the TV series, Twin Peaks, also by director David Lynch. A woman who seems to be innocent and pure by day leads a double life in a rural community where quite a bit of evil lurks just beneath the surface of an otherwise typical American small town. As she was sexually abused throughout her childhood by her possessed father, Laura has some obvious sexual problems and is heavily addicted to cocaine. This film tells of the bizarre and twisted circumstances that led to her murder–which was where the television series began.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is a 1992 horror film,[3] directed by David Lynch and written by Lynch and Robert Engels. It is a prequel to the television series Twin Peaks (1990–91), created by Mark Frost and Lynch, who were also executive producers. The film revolves around the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks (Pamela Gidley) and the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), a popular high school student in the fictional Washington town of Twin Peaks.
Most of the television cast returned for the film, with the notable exceptions of Lara Flynn Boyle, who declined to return as Laura’s best friend Donna Hayward (she was replaced by Moira Kelly); and Sherilyn Fenn, owing to scheduling conflicts. Kyle MacLachlan, who starred as Special Agent Dale Cooper in the TV series, was reluctant to return out of fear of getting typecast, so his presence in the film is smaller than originally planned.
Fire Walk with Me was greeted at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival with booing and jeers from the audience, and initially received negative reviews in the United States. The film has been received more positively in subsequent years, however,[4][5][6] with some viewing it as one of Lynch’s major works.[7][8] The film fared poorly in the United States at the box office, although it was a commercial hit in Japan.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Directed by: David Lynch
Starring: Sheryl Lee, Moira Kelly, David Bowie, Chris Isaak, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Wise, Kyle MacLachlan, Pamela Gidley, Heather Graham, Chris Isaak, Moira Kelly, Peggy Lipton
Screenplay by: David Lynch, Robert Engels
Production Design by: Patricia Norris
Cinematography by: Ronald Víctor García
Film Editing by: Mary Sweeney
Costume Design by: Patricia Norris
Set Decoration by: Leslie Morales
Music by: Angelo Badalamenti
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, sex, and drug content, and for language.
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release Date: August 28, 1992
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