Details

Release year: 2006

Storyline

As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Top credits

Directors

David Lynch

Writers

David Lynch

Cast

Karolina Gruszka — Lost Girl
Krzysztof Majchrzak — Phantom
Grace Zabriskie — Visitor #1
Laura Dern — Nikki Grace, Susan Blue

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Did you know

• Marketing executives were so puzzled by the film that they did not know how to promote it. They eventually chose the tagline "a woman in trouble", based on David Lynch's sole explanation of the film as a mystery about a woman in trouble.

• Laura Dern has said that the genesis of the whole project was a phone call from David Lynch saying, "Do you want to come and experiment?"

• During a conversation between David Lynch and Laura Dern, Dern mentioned that her husband was from the Inland Empire (an area east of Los Angeles County, including Riverside and San Bernadino County). Lynch confesses he stopped listening to what she was saying because he loved the sound of the words "Inland Empire", and finally decided on these words as the title of his movie because "I like the word inland. And I like the word empire."