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Switch to the hero, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), who has just found a human ear in a field. He takes it to the Lumberton police and carries out a personal investigation that leads him to Sandy Williams, the chief's daughter (Laura Dern), Dorothy Vallens, a masochistic torch singer (Isabella Rossellini) and Frank Booth, a perverted drug dealer (Dennis Hopper). Jeffrey discovers that Vallens' son and husband have been kidnapped by Booth, and his effort to intervene opens realms of violence and sexuality he never knew possible...
Kyle MacLachlan is outstanding as Jeffrey. With his paperboy face and barely noticeable earring, he meets and hurdles each awful rite of passage with marked confidence. Laura Dern makes for terrific chemistry with MacLachlan; she slow dances and sips Heineken like a runner-up Homecoming Queen and proclaims with detached conviction, "It's a strange world." Isabella Rossellini is all lips and eyes as the tortured chanteuse. "Hit me, hit me," that S&M cliche, has resonance and poignancy in the context of her performance. Dennis Hopper is to-the-core nasty as the vile drug-killer; he was better...
Four freshmen who should find spots on the Harvard field hockey team are: Char Joslin of Groton, Mass.; Erin O'Brien of Acton, Mass.; Laura Bartlett of Easton, Pa. and Lynn Frangione of New Britain, Conn...
...Things got a little out of hand," nice young Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) tells his nice young friend Sandy (Laura Dern). Well, yes. Walking through the woods of peaceful Lumberton, Jeffrey found a severed human ear crawling with ants. The ear belonged to a man who, with his son, had been kidnaped by Frank (Dennis Hopper), a sicko on a helium high. Frank was blackmailing the man's wife Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), and hiding in Dorothy's closet, Jeffrey watched Frank work his awful sexual will on her. When Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said...
...those heels, the '80s women onstage do strut and stomp. Jasmine Guy, a Diana Ross with funk, does proud by the Tina Turner anthem River Deep -- Mountain High. Laura Theodore works her heft, raunch and four-octave range on a rendition of Ball and Chain that could raise the dead, including Janis Joplin. And to hear Gina Taylor attack Aretha's Do Right Woman -- Do Right Man (four minutes of riffs that ascend into the ionosphere of emotional pride and pain) is to feel a standing ovation from the hairs on the back of your neck. "We're not trying...