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"Twin Peaks" Pilot (1990)
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Original Air Date:
8 April 1990
(Season 1, Episode 1)
Tagline:
A Mystery That Holds Its Secret To The Very End
Plot:
Twin Peaks, 1990. A popular teenage girl in a strange town is murdered, and a stranger FBI agent is sent in to investigate. full summary | add synopsis
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FBI
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Murder
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Investigation
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One Armed Man
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Awards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys.
Another 1 win
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4 nominations
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User Comments:
the finest hour of television-ever!
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Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| Kyle MacLachlan | ... | Special Agent Dale Cooper | |
| Michael Ontkean | ... | Sheriff Harry S. Truman | |
| Mädchen Amick | ... | Shelly Johnson (as Madchen Amick) | |
| Dana Ashbrook | ... | Bobby Briggs | |
| Richard Beymer | ... | Benjamin Horne | |
| Lara Flynn Boyle | ... | Donna Hayward | |
| Sherilyn Fenn | ... | Audrey Horne | |
| Warren Frost | ... | Dr. Will Hayward | |
| Peggy Lipton | ... | Norma Jennings | |
| James Marshall | ... | James Hurley | |
| Everett McGill | ... | Big Ed Hurley | |
| Jack Nance | ... | Pete Martell | |
| Ray Wise | ... | Leland Palmer | |
| Joan Chen | ... | Jocelyn Packard | |
| Piper Laurie | ... | Katherine Martell |
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Runtime:
94 min | USA:113 min (video version) | 90 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Ireland:15 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:T |
UK:15 |
USA:Unrated
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This movie was originally a pilot episode for "Twin Peaks" (1990) but since it was unsure whether they would create a whole series, the ending was rewritten to create an individual movie. (The major change was that it was revealed who the killer was.) This way, they could profit on it by selling it as a self-contained movie even if the full series was never made. When the series was in fact made, it became so popular that it was decided to release the movie anyway.
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Continuity: Not long after the class scene where Donna starts to cry and James breaks his pencil when they have a premonition about Laura Palmer being dead, Principal Wolchezk makes an announcement. With the previous scene in mind, he tells about Laura Palmer as their classmate, whilst actually the announcement is meant for the whole school.
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The Nightingale
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i was only six years old when twin peaks premiered in Germany (it was no hit, by the way), but i did remember the huge a hype surrounding it at first. years later i stumbled upon it at a video store and rented the first season. i think the two-hour pilot of twin peaks is a masterpiece.
the characters and the atmosphere, the enigmatic power of laura palmer, my TV was dripping from magic. i think the show (and the resolution of her murder) never lived up to the pilot, but i still think that David lynch really proved his genius with this pilot episode. i could watch over and over again.
later on the show got confusing (well, surprise it's lynch) but you must rent the first season of this.
brilliant!!!