Mulholland Drive stylized as Mulholland Dr. Its plot follows an aspiring actress Naomi Watts who arrives in Los Angeles , where she befriends a woman Laura Harring who is suffering from amnesia after a car accident. The film follows several other vignettes and characters, including a Hollywood director Justin Theroux who encounters mob interference while casting for his latest film.
Lynch's tagline for the film is "a love story in the city of dreams". The film was originally conceived as a television pilot for ABC , with footage shot and edited in as an open-ended mystery. After viewing Lynch's cut, however, television executives cancelled the proposed TV series.
Lynch then secured funding from French production company StudioCanal to make the material into a feature film, writing an ending to the project and filming new material. The resulting surrealist narrative has left the film's events open to interpretation. Lynch declined to offer an explanation, leaving audiences, critics, and even the film's own cast to speculate on its meaning.
He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the film. The film boosted Watts' Hollywood profile considerably, and was the last feature film to star veteran Hollywood actress Ann Miller. Mulholland Drive is often regarded as one of Lynch's finest works and as one of the greatest films of all time. It earned the No. A woman is about to be shot by her chauffeur on Mulholland Drive , but is saved when a car crashes into them.
The woman is the sole survivor but is dazed, and hides in an apartment when the occupant leaves. Betty Elms, an aspiring actress from Deep River, Ontario , arrives at the apartment she is borrowing from her aunt and finds the woman inside.
