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• Actors: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Phoebe Augustine
• Directors: David Lynch
• Writers: David Lynch, Mark Frost, Robert Engels
• Producers: David Lynch, Albert Ihde, Francis Bouygues, Gregg Fienberg
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 26, 2002
• Run Time: 134 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (218 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000056BP1
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,422 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Alternately fascinating and frustrating--and no doubt deliberately so on both counts--this controversial Twin Peaks installment (it was roundly booed by mystified audiences at the Cannes Film Festival) appeared in theaters after the series was canceled, serving as both prequel and coda to the whole remarkable Twin Peaks phenomenon. Designed especially for dedicated followers of the series (it would just bewilder anyone else), Fire Walk with Me further investigates the murder of Laura Palmer by exploring events that took place before the series's brilliant debut feature (Twin Peaks: The Premiere), up to and including the long, dark, terrible night of Laura's death. Familiar Twin Peaks denizens Sheryl Lee, Grace Zabriskie, and Ray Wise (as the three members of the Palmer family), Kyle MacLachlan, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Dana Ashbrook, Miguel Ferrer, Mädchen Amick, and director David Lynch himself reprise their series roles (with Moira Kelly subbing for Lara Flynn Boyle as Donna Hayward), joined by an equally motley group of guest stars, including Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Chris Isaak, and Kiefer Sutherland. --Jim Emerson

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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/20/2004 Run time: 134 minutes Rating: R

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76 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laura Palmer goes to hell and takes us with her, March 6, 2006

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Jim Reed "Jim Reed" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (DVD)

Much maligned film detailing the last days in the life of Laura Palmer has been dismissed by many as being an out of control freak show.Without the restraints of television David Lynch lets his imagination cut loose (a televsion is literally smashed to pieces at the end of the opening credits)and you may not understand everything but it's more straightforward than later Lynch mindtrips.The first half hour(which if you've seen this on T.V. is sometimes entirely lopped off)which features the investigation of Chris Isaak and Kiefer Sutherland is slow and strange.It concludes with a freakish David Bowie cameo before journeying to Twin Peaks and Laura Palmer herself where the film really takes off.Trying to escape the mysterious being Bob who molests her she descends into a vortex of drugs and sex.In the performance of her life Sheryl Lee gives an intense emotionally unstrung performance as Laura making her descent all the more harrowing.There are some scenes that have such a dreamlike quality they are unmatched in modern cinema:Laura's best friend follows her to a club where Julee Cruise sings the heartbreaking "Questions In A World of Blue" before abruptly swiching to a nightmarish strobelit club complete with clanging music.Laura's journey into a picture on her wall into the otherworldly lodge.Laura losing her grip on reality stumbling through a pitch black wood.The climax is gutwrenching and hard to watch(and reportedly slightly toned down after the audience at the Cannes film festival were too sickened to enjoy their dinner afterwards)and will leave you shaken.As always Lynch gives us no deleted scenes or commentary leaving us to deal with the film as it is.Oviously not for all tastes and there's no quirky humor for fans of the series.If however you watch the film from start to finish it could be one of the most disturbing experiences of your life.A surreal masterpiece.

57 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mysterious, Disturbing, Beautiful (SPOILERS!), February 8, 2005

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B. Erickson "boycorrupted" (Overland Park, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me (DVD)

I remember "Twin Peaks" from when I was a kid, meaning that I remember the hype surrounding the series when it came out, and the way its increasingly gratuitous weirdness eventually alienated all but the hardest-core fans. I remember those commercials in which you'd see the face of "BOB" morph into that of an owl, etc. It all looked really strange and occult and obscure. I was too young to get into it, but the fascination of the show kind of stuck with me through the years. Later I became a fan of Lynch's films, particularly the brilliant "Mulholland Dr.," and from time to time I'd think oh yeah, this was the "TP" guy, but the general unavailability of the series as a whole kept me away from it. (Which is why it's just plain stupid to stall the release of the second season of a show like this - especially when there are only two seasons total! But I digress.) Eventually I wound up borrowing the pilot and first season DVD from a friend. Guess what, I got addicted, so I had to "acquire" the second season online. I even read the (likewise generally unobtainable) "Secret Diary of Laura Palmer," a truly gripping and powerful piece of writing by (if I recall) David Lynch's daughter, which recounts in first person the gory details of Laura's years of abuse and torture at the hands of the mysterious entity known as BOB. Take out the supernatural elements in this book and you're left with a convincing case study of the psychological impact of incest, drug abuse, and secrecy.

After all this I felt prepared to see the film. It's probably ideally best to watch "Fire Walk With Me" last, as a capper. If you've watched the whole series you already know who killed Laura, and whether you have or not, "FWWM" will probably raise more questions than it answers - that's why we love it - but so much of it depends on the viewer's acquaintance with the show that it still makes sense to see the film last.

As with the show, the movie bears interpretation on many levels at once, and Lynch is always teasing you with suggestions of diverse "working theories." On the one hand, it often feels like a perfectly straightforward after-school special on the topics of sex, drugs and incest. There are hints that all the "supernatural" aspects are simply elaborate imaginary ways for Laura (and maybe her father) to deal with the unspeakable. Maybe there really is no BOB, as indeed shut-in Harold Smith remarks early on in the film - maybe he's just a cypher for Laura's father, rather than a demonic entity that possesses him to molest her.

And yet there's an equal insistence on the supernatural, with repeated references to the mysteries brought up in the series, as well as some new symbolism unique to the movie, e.g. the "blue rose." There are sections in which "FWWM" dissolves into abstract stream-of-consciousness-style hallucinations in the midst of what almost looked like it was going to be an ordinary narrative, most notably the bizzare segment at the Philadelphia headquarters in which Cooper splits in two, missing agent Philip Jeffries suddenly turns up out of nowhere and the next thing we know we're above the notorious "convenience store" with BOB, the Little Man From Another Place, the "Chalfonts" and others, all spewing typical symbolic rhetoric about formica tables and "Garmonbozia." It's extremely suggestive, but I doubt anybody really knows EXACTLY what it's about, Lynch included, although the references will stick in your head and tease you as you try to puzzle through them.

This is the secret of the undeniable fascination of the whole "TP" phenomenon, and much of Lynch's work. I've watched the hell out of "Mulholland Dr.," and every time my theory changes, and I actually doubt that there's any one all-purpose solution to the cluster of mysteries. There are various explanations for various events, sometimes mutually exclusive, but all seeming to relate to the same nexus of intrigue in some indeterminate sense. But Lynch never gives the secret away completely. He claims in interviews that he doesn't always know what his own symbols mean at the time, and that he's as shocked as anybody when he "figures them out." And actually, I believe him!

A common remark in these reviews, whether the reviewers have seen the series or not, regardless of how they interpret the story, is that this film stays with them and haunts them for hours afterwards. It has an undeniable archetypal power. It's definitely much darker than the series, which overemphasized the light comedy elements to appease tame network viewers, but after all, this IS the story of the brutal rape and murder of a teenage girl, and the film depicts this quite vividly.

124 of 137 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The finest film I've ever seen, April 11, 2000

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Michael R. Broschat "mrbroschat" (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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The Amazon review suggests that anyone who didn't see the Twin Peaks TV series can't understand this film. I didn't see that series, know nothing of its characters, but was much impressed with the Lynch I'd seen to date (Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart). I took in the first part of the film without a problem, smiling through much, and admiring Lynch's guts. Then the real movie starts. I didn't smile at anything else in the film. In fact, I was emotionally numb for about two hours after it ended. I'd never been so shaken by a film. You need to love the main character, to feel this much pain, and Sheryl Lee makes it easy. What does she say to her "true" boyfriend--"The Laura you used to know doesn't exist anymore. There's only me." We get to see if not where the original Laura went then why. Smile through the first part. You'll know when it's over. He's just setting you up for the kill.