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Released
1997 · FILM

Lost Highway

A tormented jazz musician receives cryptic home videos that implicate him in his wife's murder, forcing him to unravel a nightmarish web of surveillance, doppelgängers and deadly gangsters before reality shatters completely.

“A lost road on the edge of strange...”

Directed by
David Lynch, David Lynch Nm0000186
Written by
David Lynch, Barry Gifford
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
134 min
DramaMysteryThriller
Streaming on
  • Showtime

Synopsis

A troubled jazz musician becomes entangled in a mysterious narrative that includes murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation while confined in a prison cell.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 204+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mary SweeneyShot by Peter DemingScored by Angelo BadalamentiDesigned by Patricia NorrisSound by Frank GaetaStunts by Chris Howell

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.8M

Budget$15.0M
Worldwide gross$3.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $3.7M — 96% of worldwide · International: $162K (4%)

Opening weekend: $213K — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $297K — 8% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 12 theaters

Re-release box office

20222 theaters
$18K($20K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Strade perduteit
  • (English)Lost Highway
  • (Bulgarian)Изгубената магистрала
Release dates around the world5 countries · show
  • FranceJan 15, 1997
  • SwitzerlandJan 17, 1997
  • United StatesJan 24, 1997
  • BelgiumJan 29, 1997
  • PhilippinesJan 29, 1997

Companies

ProductionCiBy 2000, Asymmetrical Productions, Lost Highway Productions

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