MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Universal Pictures / 2001
Who does Melissa play?
- The Gangster's "chosen tootsie"... called Camilla Rhodes
What's it about?
- Mulholland Drive the TV Series was to have revolved around four players - an actress,
a director, a screenwriter, and a beautiful amnesiac - all living in an
apartment complex. In the pilot, Lynch's L.A. is awash in professional hitmen,
two of whom in the opening sequence bungle the offing of Herring when they
are involved in a sudden car crash. With thousands of dollars stuffed in
her evening bag, the dazed Herring walks shakily into Hollywood, where she
soon teams up with the show's most improbable character, a corn-fed, ambitious
ingenue who, while waiting for her big break in Hollywood, likes to play
Nancy Drew, girl detective. Into this mix come subplots like one where Justin
Theroux - who is sensational in the part - plays a movie director who finds
his wife cheating on him with the pool guy, even as Mafia gangsters shut
down production on his feature film. The baddies want Theroux to recast
the female lead with their chosen tootsie (Melissa) or they will ruin him,
as a spectral thug named Cowboy makes plain.
Cast Includes:
- Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya,
Mark Pellegrino, Robert Forster, Lee Grant, Brent Briscoe, Melissa George, Billy Ray Cyrus
