Blue Velvet

David Lynch · 1986 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A college student home in Lumberton after his father collapses finds a severed ear in a field and takes it to a detective. He and the detective's daughter start following a nightclub singer named Dorothy Vallens, and he ends up inside her closet when Frank Booth comes to visit. American innocence and its basement.

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