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Release Date: December 6th, 2006

DVD Release Date: August 14th, 2007

R|2 hr 59 min

Plot Summary
Nikki (Laura Dern), an actress, takes on a role in a new film, and because her husband (Peter J. Lucas) is very jealous, her co-star Devon (Justin Theroux) gets a warning not to make any romantic overtures -- especially since the characters they play are having an affair. Both actors learn that the project is a remake of an unfinished film in which the stars were murdered.

Cast: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton, Justin Theroux, Terryn Westbrook, Julia Ormond, Peter J. Lucas, Grace Zabriskie

Director: David Lynch

Genres: Mystery, Thriller

Production Co: Asymmetrical Productions, Camerimage 2, Inland Empire Productions

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  • 100
    Ken FoxTV Guide Magazine

    In the end, it's best to make peace with the film's essential and deliberate inscrutability -- something Lynch fans have learned to do since Twin Peaks -- and to simply marvel at Dern's astonishing performance, which few actresses are likely to top anytime soon. show more

  • 88
    Peter TraversRolling Stone

    My advice, in the face of such hallucinatory brilliance, is that you hang on. show more

  • 100
    Aaron HillisPremiere

    Inland Empire is interchangably terrifying, maddening, shockingly hilarious and perversely exciting, and that's just to those who end up disliking it. show more

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