Behind the picture-postcard façade of Lumberton, small-town America hides a disturbing truth. As Lynch uses regular American guy Jeffrey Beaumont (MacLachlan) to peel back the layers of normality, Lumberton's dark, morally corrupt and sexually perverted reality is gradually revealed. From a severed ear found in a field, the trail takes innocents Jeffrey and Sandy (Laura Dern) into a very adult world of torture, kidnapping, murder and sexual depravity revolving around Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini) and deeply deranged Frank (Dennis Hopper). An unmissable classic, the performances of MacLachlan and Hopper plus Lynch's direction create a tense masterpiece of psychosexual drama. Possibly the most influential American film of the 1980's Lynch's bizarre erotic mystery spawned a whole raft of imitations with its portrayal of the dark underside of American small-town life. Critics and audiences responded to Lynch's original and startling images of sex and violence and made the film a box-office smash. Dennis Hopper's Frank is regarded one of the greatest screen villains of all time.