Twin Peaks

1989 Directed by David Lynch

Who killed Laura Palmer?

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)

Kyle MacLachlan Michael Ontkean Mädchen Amick Dana Ashbrook Richard Beymer Lara Flynn Boyle Sherilyn Fenn Warren Frost Peggy Lipton James Marshall Everett McGill Jack Nance Ray Wise Joan Chen Piper Laurie Sheryl Lee Wendy Robie Russ Tamblyn Eric DaRe Mary Jo Deschanel Harry Goaz Gary Hershberger Michael Horse Grace Zabriskie Troy Evans John Boylan Rodney Harvey Robert Davenport Jan D'Arcy Show All…

Alternative Titles

Northwest Passage, Twin Peaks: International Pilot, Twin Peaks: Pilot

mystery drama

116 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by Jacob ★★½ 14

me, running as fast as i can: "i appreciate your style, i just don't get it! please, leave me alone!"
david lynch, galloping after me and playing a trumpet: "negativity is the enemy of creativity"
Review by Sean Baker 11

Rewatching first two seasons on Blu and then Fire Walk with Me.... to prep to watch Twin Peaks: The Return in the new year.
The Blu-ray restoration looks fantastic. I forgot so much. Glad I'm re-visiting.
Review by Ian Fastert ★★★★★ 1

Bullshit my principal wouldn't cry if I died
Review by nathaxnne (hiatus due to injury) ★★★★★ 83

The Full Blossom Of The Night!
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 6

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The Return
100
“Is it future? Or is it…past?”
Such a phrase is irrelevant. A mystery to an enigma. A dream of a nightmare. David Lynch solves one riddle by manufacturing another. Timelines and dreamscapes and alternate universes are merely the tree line for circular, unceasing trauma; darkness of an empathetic vacancy conjured by universal Evil forces. History is forged by people, and Lynch provides evolution for their rottenness in the form of typical life: houses, families, community. But the seed was already planted, and it was always bad. Never good, always molten, wrathful against the goodness birthed for reconciliation. It infected bodies and yards and celling fans and staircases, school hallways and police stations and traffic lights and waterfalls.…
Review by Kate™ ★★★★★ 3

I love twin peaks
love to understand it someday

Recent reviews

Review by mrmays ★★★½

second season is even worse than I remember. an abysmal 20+ episodes to slog through but goddamn the first season is pure gold
Review by chefsuk ★★ 1

“The pilot is the only thing I am particularly, extremely proud of. There were great moments along the way,” he said. “The second season sucked.”
- David Lynch
Review by Zarah

I've seen this three times now and I still don't know what to rate it
Review by Yusuf Rahman ★★★★½

Episodes 1-17, 28-29: Masterpiece, amazing, scary, tense, etc.
Episodes 18-27: WOW now I realize why this show needs David Lynch
Review by Logan ★★★★½

One of the best T.V. shows of all time.
Review by Austin Frevele ★★★★

A soap opera created by one of the weirdest guys ever, and Lynch pulls it off wonderfully.
Review by boo ★★★★

the best thing about twin peaks is the coffee and the donut
Review by tallywilloughby ★★★★

The Dad did it?
Review by Frank S. ★★

Usually I like films by David Lynch...like...a lot. This one was too weird for my own taste. The dialogues sometimes made me laugh, sometimes I cringed. But still some part of me liked some aspects of the film and I am really tempted to give the Twin Peaks show a try.