REVIEW: 'Blue Velvet'
Of the theatergoers who paid to watch it, director David Lynch, the maverick behind Eraserhead (1977) and Dune (1984), wondered the same. As riveting and revolting as the day it was released, Blue Velvet chronicles the moral odyssey of Jeffrey, played by Kyle MacLachlan in his breakout role. The soft-spoken college student returns to his native Lumberton, North Carolina, a fictional setting based on Lynch's hometown of Spokane, after Jeffrey's father, proprietor of a classically American hardware store, suffers a stroke.
- ▪Of the theatergoers who paid to watch it, director David Lynch, the maverick behind Eraserhead (1977) and Dune (1984), wondered the same.
- ▪As riveting and revolting as the day it was released, Blue Velvet chronicles the moral odyssey of Jeffrey, played by Kyle MacLachlan in his breakout role.
- ▪The soft-spoken college student returns to his native Lumberton, North Carolina, a fictional setting based on Lynch's hometown of Spokane, after Jeffrey's father, proprietor of a classically American hardware store, suffers a stroke.
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Culture REVIEW: 'Blue Velvet' America40: Celebrating the Greatest Movies of 1986 James Rosen July 26, 2026 image/svg+xml .st0{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linecap:round;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st1{fill:none;stroke:#384f61;stroke-width:2;stroke-linejoin:round;stroke-miterlimit:10;} "I don't know if you're a detective or a pervert," says Sandy Williams, an innocent blonde high schooler, to Jeffrey Beaumont, her handsome suitor and unlikely partner in crime, at the outset of the small-town mystery Blue Velvet (1986). Of the theatergoers who paid to watch it, director David Lynch, the maverick behind Eraserhead (1977) and Dune (1984), wondered the same.
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