Essentially a prequel to David Lynch and Mark Frost's earlier TV series "Twin Peaks". The first half-hour or so concerns the investigation by FBI Agent Chet Desmond (Chris Isaak) and his partner Sam Stanley (Kiefer Sutherland) into the murder of night-shift waitress Teresa Banks in the small Washington state town of Deer Meadow. When Desmond finds a mysterious clue to the murder, he inexplicably disappears. The film then cuts to one year later in the nearby town of Twin Peaks and follows the events during the last week in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) a troubled teenage girl with two boyfriends; the hot-tempered rebel Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) and quiet biker James Hurley (James Marshall), her drug addiction, and her relationship with her difficult (and possible schizophrenic) father Leland (Ray Wise), a story in which her violent murder was later to motivate much of the TV series...
Sheryl Lee | Laura Palmer |
Ray Wise | Leland Palmer |
Mädchen Amick | Shelly Johnson |
Dana Ashbrook | Bobby Briggs |
Phoebe Augustine | Ronette Pulaski |
David Bowie | Phillip Jeffries |
Eric DaRe | Leo Johnson |
Miguel Ferrer | Albert Rosenfeld |
Pamela Gidley | Teresa Banks |
Heather Graham | Annie Blackburn |
Chris Isaak | Special Agent Chester Desmond |
Moira Kelly | Donna Hayward |
Peggy Lipton | Norma Jennings |
David Lynch | Gordon Cole |
James Marshall | James Hurley |
Angelo Badalamenti | Composer |
Jürgen Prochnow | Woodsman (as Jurgen Prochnow) |
Ronald Víctor García | Cinematographer |
Harry Dean Stanton | Carl Rodd |
Mary Sweeney | Editor |
Kiefer Sutherland | Sam Stanley |
Lenny von Dohlen | Harold Smith (as Lenny Von Dohlen) |
Grace Zabriskie | Sarah Palmer |
Kyle MacLachlan | Special Agent Dale Cooper |
Frances Bay | Mrs. Tremond (Chalfont) |
Catherine E. Coulson | The Log Lady |
Michael J. Anderson | Man From Another Place |
Frank Silva | Bob |
Walter Olkewicz | Jacques Renault |
Al Strobel | Philip Gerard (The One Armed Man) |
Gary Hershberger | Mike Nelson |
Sandra Kinder | Irene at Hap's |
Chris Pedersen | Tommy |
Victor Rivers | Buck |
Rick Aiello | Cliff Howard |
Gary Bullock | Sheriff Cable |
Jon Huck | FBI Agent |
Mike Malone | FBI Agent |
Joe Berman | Bus Driver |
Yvonne Roberts | First Prostitute |
Audra L. Cooper | Second Prostitute |
John Hoobler | Pilot |
Kimberly Ann Cole | Lil the Dancer |
Elizabeth McCarthy | Giggling Secretary (as Elizabeth Ann McCarthy) |
C.H. Evans | Jack at Hap's |
Paige Bennett | French Girl at Hap's |
G. Kenneth Davidson | Old Guy at Hap's |
Ingrid Brucato | Curious Woman |
Chuck McQuary | Medic (as Chuck McQuarry) |
Margaret Adams | Fat Trout Neighbor |
Carlton Lee Russell | Jumping Man (as Carlton L. Russell) |
Calvin Lockhart | The Electrician |
Jonathan J. Leppell | Mrs. Tremond's Grandson |
David Brisbin | Second Woodsman |
Andrea Hays | Heidi |
Julee Cruise | Roadhouse Singer |
Steven Hodges | Band at Roadhouse |
William Ungerman | Band at Roadhouse |
Joseph 'Simon' Szeibert | Band at Roadhouse |
Smokey Hormel | Band at Roadhouse (as Gregory 'Smokey' Hormel) |
Joseph L. Altruda | Band at Roadhouse |
James Parks | Service Station Mechanic |
Jane Jones | School Teacher |
Karin Robison | Angel in Train Car |
Lorna MacMillan | Angel in Red Room |
Joan Chen | Jocelyn Packard (scenes deleted) |
Jan D'Arcy | Sylvia Horne (scenes deleted) |
Don S. Davis | Maj. Garland Briggs (scenes deleted) |
Mary Jo Deschanel | Eileen Hayward (scenes deleted) |
Brian T. Finney | Trucker (scenes deleted) |
Warren Frost | Dr. Will Hayward (scenes deleted) |
Harry Goaz | Deputy Andy Brennan (scenes deleted) |
Michael Horse | Deputy Hawk (scenes deleted) |
David Patrick Kelly | Jerry Horne (scenes deleted) |
Everett McGill | Big Ed Hurley (scenes deleted) |
Jack Nance | Pete Martell (scenes deleted) |
Michael Ontkean | Sheriff Harry S. Truman (scenes deleted) |
Kimmy Robertson | Lucy Moran (scenes deleted) |
Wendy Robie | Nadine Hurley (scenes deleted) |
Charlotte Stewart | Betty Briggs (scenes deleted) |
Russ Tamblyn | Dr. Lawrence Jacoby (scenes deleted) |
Patricia Norris | Production Designer |
Leslie Morales | Set Decorator |
Katharina Hirsch-Smith | key makeup artist |
Francesca Lacagnina | makeup assistant (as Francesca Lacaqnina) |
Brent Lavett | hair stylist |
Heba Thorisdottir | makeup assistant |
William Jennings | second second assistant director (as Bill Jennings) |
Deepak Nayar | first assistant director |
Richard Oswald | second assistant director |
Susan Walter | dga trainee |
Sophia Barashkoff | painter |
Jeannine Bolding | art department receptionist |
Chris Burch | swing gang (as Christopher Burch) |
David Christopher Campbell | carpenter (as David Chris Campbell) |
John Canedo | painter |
Keith Cox | construction coordinator |
Tyler Dupuy | Carpenter |
Morgan Flaherty | lead carpenter |
James 'Bud' Hays | Carpenter |