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* CreatorCameo: Composer Angelo Badalamenti pops up as Luigi Castigliane.
* TheCameo: Robert Forster and Brent Briscoe pop up as the detectives investigating the opening car crash, while Music/BillyRayCyrus appears as the pool guy sleeping with Adam Kesher's wife.

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* CreatorCameo: Composer Angelo Badalamenti pops up as Luigi Castigliane.
* TheCameo: Robert Forster
ChannelHop: The film was originally shot for the Creator/{{ABC}} network and Brent Briscoe pop up as financed by [[Creator/{{Disney}} Touchstone Pictures]]. After ABC passed on it, director Creator/DavidLynch decided to rework it and got production company Studio Canal to buy the detectives investigating film and finance the opening car crash, while Music/BillyRayCyrus appears as shooting of new footage. Creator/{{Universal}} ended up releasing the pool guy sleeping film as part of their relationship with Adam Kesher's wife.Studio Canal.



* RetroactiveRecognition: One of the backup singers during the "16 ways I love you" number is apparently...Creator/BrianBeacock. Yeah. [[Anime/DigimonTamers That Brian Beacock.]]
* ShoutOut: Betty Elms is named after Lynch's long-time director of photography Frederick Elmes.
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** The "Winkie's" diner was originally scripted to be a "Denny's" (a real-life diner chain [https://www.dennys.com/][https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g58549-d4399228-Reviews-Denny_s-Lacey_Washington.html]), but was changed likely due to licensing issues.

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** The "Winkie's" diner was originally scripted to be a "Denny's" (a real-life diner chain [https://www.([[https://www.dennys.com/][https://www.com/ a real-life]] [[https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g58549-d4399228-Reviews-Denny_s-Lacey_Washington.html]), html diner chain]]), but was changed likely due to licensing issues.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with the film originally being intended as a pilot, Disney was supposed to release it (under their Creator/TouchstonePictures label). However, they didn't like the final cut and ended up dropping it. Universal and Studio Canal ended up releasing it together. In a 2014 interview, Sherilyn Fenn mentioned that the idea for the TV pilot originated as a spin-off film for [[Series/TwinPeaks Audrey Horne]].

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Along with the film originally being intended as a pilot, Disney was supposed to release it (under their Creator/TouchstonePictures label). However, they didn't like the final cut and ended up dropping it. Universal and Studio Canal ended up releasing it together. In a 2014 interview, Sherilyn Fenn mentioned that the idea for the TV pilot originated as a spin-off film for [[Series/TwinPeaks Audrey Horne]].Horne]].
** The "Winkie's" diner was originally scripted to be a "Denny's" (a real-life diner chain [https://www.dennys.com/][https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g58549-d4399228-Reviews-Denny_s-Lacey_Washington.html]), but was changed likely due to licensing issues.
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* DeletedScenes: Around half-an-hour of footage was cut by Lynch and editor Mary Sweeney to shorten the runtime:

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* DeletedScenes: Around half-an-hour of footage was cut trimmed by Lynch and editor Mary Sweeney to shorten the runtime:
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* LifeImitatesArt: Shortly after the filming wrapped, Creator/NaomiWatts actually lost her health insurance and faced eviction from her apartment shortly after filming wrapped. She was ready to quit acting and leave Los Angeles, but her close friend, Creator/NicoleKidman, talked her into staying until after this film was released.

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* LifeImitatesArt: Shortly after the filming wrapped, Creator/NaomiWatts actually lost her health insurance and faced eviction from her apartment shortly after filming wrapped.apartment. She was ready to quit acting and leave Los Angeles, but her close friend, Creator/NicoleKidman, talked her into staying until after this film was released.
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* ActingForTwo: Geno Silva appears as both Cookie, the hotel receptionist, and the Club Silencio MC.


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* AuteurLicense: Lynch was given more-or-less complete free reign to make the film however he saw fit, first under ABC while it was still a television pilot, than under Studio Canal while it was being completed in its current iteration.
* CreatorCameo: Composer Angelo Badalamenti pops up as Luigi Castigliane.
* TheCameo: Robert Forster and Brent Briscoe pop up as the detectives investigating the opening car crash, while Music/BillyRayCyrus appears as the pool guy sleeping with Adam Kesher's wife.
* DeletedScenes: Around half-an-hour of footage was cut by Lynch and editor Mary Sweeney to shorten the runtime:
** An additional scene of the Police Detectives, here discussing the previous night's limo crash in a police station.
** An extended conversation between Joe and Billy at the hot dog stand, where Joe presses for more information about the missing woman and the hot dogs being served.
** A scene of one of Castigliane's goons, Kenny, arriving at Adam's house and questioning his gardner as to his presence.
** A scene of Betty arriving on the studio lot and meeting Martha Johnson outside the producer's office and Wally coming out the front door to meet her and take her inside.
** An extended introduction to Mr. Roque, following Vincent Darby as he travels into a large office building to request an appointment with his receptionist.
** During the scene where Mr. Roque relays the message 'the girl is still missing' to various unseen associates, when the unseen man with the hairy arm on the yellow telephone rings his contact, the original scene was not of a telephone under a lamp with a red shade, but a white speaker phone on a bright blue table and a woman's hand (Camila Rhodes?) answering it, but cutting away before she says anything.
** An extended scene of Adam meeting with the executives, with him first arriving holding a iron golf club demanding why he has been called away from the golf course to this meeting and Ray giving him a vague explanation to the movie he's filming. The scene ends with the Castigliane brothers leaving first and Adam yelling at the executives over them rigging the casting of the lead actress and about the film being kept locked up in the studio safe.
** A bit scene where after the bruiser Kenny knocks unconscious Adam's wife and the pool man, he walks around Adam's house and sees Adam's wife's jewelry in the kitchen sink which is overflowing with water. Kenny then is shown breaking all of Adam's golf clubs as payback for trashing the limo and then leaves telling the gangsters in the back of the limo that Adam's not home.
** There is another scene introducing Wilkins, who lives in a studio loft above Betty Elms's apartment where Adam phones him just before his meeting with the Cowboy and telling Wilkins about finding his wife in bed with the pool man, and asks Wilkins if he could come over to stay for a while since he has no money. Wilkins agrees, and after hanging up, he yells at his dog crouched in a corner about relieving himself all over the place.
* EditedForSyndication: Lynch himself recut Betty and Rita's sex scene on the film's home video release, adding a blur effect to the latter's crotch because he disapproved of nude pictures of Laura Harring being distributed on the Internet


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* LifeImitatesArt: Shortly after the filming wrapped, Creator/NaomiWatts actually lost her health insurance and faced eviction from her apartment shortly after filming wrapped. She was ready to quit acting and leave Los Angeles, but her close friend, Creator/NicoleKidman, talked her into staying until after this film was released.

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* AllStarCast: Starring Creator/NaomiWatts, Creator/LauraElenaHarring, Creator/JustinTheroux, and Creator/MarkPellegrino with supporting roles filled out by Robert Forster, Lee Grant, Dan Hedaya, James Karen, Ann Miller, Marcus Graham, Rita Taggart, Chad Everett, and Music/BillyRayCyrus.



* FakeNationality: Australian Creator/NaomiWatts as the Canadian Betty Elms. [[spoiler: And later as the Canadian Diane Selwyn.]]

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* FakeNationality: Australian Aussies Creator/NaomiWatts and Creator/MelissaGeorge as the Canadian Betty Elms. [[spoiler: And later as the Canadian Diane Selwyn.]]Selwyn,]] and the American Camilla Rhodes, respectively.


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* ShoutOut: Betty Elms is named after Lynch's long-time director of photography Frederick Elmes.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with the film originally being intended as a pilot, Disney was supposed to release it (under their Creator/TouchstonePictures label). However, they didn't like the final cut and ended up dropping it. Universal and Studio Canal ended up releasing it together.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with the film originally being intended as a pilot, Disney was supposed to release it (under their Creator/TouchstonePictures label). However, they didn't like the final cut and ended up dropping it. Universal and Studio Canal ended up releasing it together. In a 2014 interview, Sherilyn Fenn mentioned that the idea for the TV pilot originated as a spin-off film for [[Series/TwinPeaks Audrey Horne]].
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At the dinner party, Diane mentions that she's from Deep River, Ontario, much like Betty is.


* FakeNationality: Australian Creator/NaomiWatts as the Canadian Betty Elms. [[spoiler: And later as the FakeAmerican Diane Selwyn.]]

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* FakeNationality: Australian Creator/NaomiWatts as the Canadian Betty Elms. [[spoiler: And later as the FakeAmerican Canadian Diane Selwyn.]]
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* ActingInTheDark: Lynch left his cast in the dark about the meaning of the plot and their roles in it.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Keshers' pool boy is played by "Achy Breaky" Billy Ray Cyrus.
** Coco is played by Ann Miller in her final role before she died.
** The incompetent hitman is [[Series/{{Lost}} Jacob]].
** Dan is played by Patrick Fischler, who's been in [[Series/{{Lost}} way]] [[Series/{{Southland}} too]] [[Series/NashBridges many]] [[VideoGame/LANoire things]] [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} to]] [[Series/MadMen count]].
** The espresso-swilling movie exec near the beginning of the film is the movie's composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Not his only cameo in a Creator/DavidLynch film, either.
** The creepy Mr. Roque is [[Series/TwinPeaks the Man From Another Place]] (made up to look like a full-sized human being, for added UncannyValley effect).
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* FakeNationality: Australian Creator/NaomiWatts as the Canadian Betty Elms. [[spoiler: And later as the FakeAmerican Diane Selwyn.]]


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* InMemoriam: The movie is dedicated to Jennifer Syme, who worked as an assistant to director David Lynch at the time. Syme died in a car crash in April 2001, before the movie was released.
* MetaCasting: Much like her character[[spoiler:s]], Creator/NaomiWatts was struggling before being cast in this film.
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* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep[[note]](where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls)[[/note]]. That first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.

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* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep[[note]](where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls)[[/note]]. That prep - that first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.
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* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep [[note]](where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls)[[/note]]. That first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.

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* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep [[note]](where prep[[note]](where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls)[[/note]]. That first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.
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* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep[[note]] (where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls)[[/note]] . That first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.

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* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep[[note]] (where prep [[note]](where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls)[[/note]] .rolls)[[/note]]. That first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.
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* StarMakingRole: for Creator/NaomiWatts.
* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep (where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls). That first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.

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* StarMakingRole: for For Creator/NaomiWatts.
* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep prep[[note]] (where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls).rolls)[[/note]] . That first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.
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* ThrowItIn: Lynch included Richard Green's (The Magician) prep (where the actor psyches himself up at the last moment before the camera rolls). That first moment of him standing there for a couple of seconds was shot before the actor knew they were rolling. Richard Green said he was surprised to see it when the movie premiered.
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** The incompetent hitman is [[{{Lost}} Jacob]].
** Dan is played by Patrick Fischler, who's been in [[Series/{{Lost}} way]] [[Series/{{Southland}} too]] [[NashBridges many]] [[VideoGame/LANoire things]] [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} to]] [[Series/MadMen count]].

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** The incompetent hitman is [[{{Lost}} [[Series/{{Lost}} Jacob]].
** Dan is played by Patrick Fischler, who's been in [[Series/{{Lost}} way]] [[Series/{{Southland}} too]] [[NashBridges [[Series/NashBridges many]] [[VideoGame/LANoire things]] [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} to]] [[Series/MadMen count]].

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* HeyItsThatVoice: One of the backup singers during the "16 ways I love you" number is apparently...Creator/BrianBeacock. Yeah. [[Anime/DigimonTamers That Brian Beacock.]]


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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of the backup singers during the "16 ways I love you" number is apparently...Creator/BrianBeacock. Yeah. [[Anime/DigimonTamers That Brian Beacock.]]
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* HeyItsThatVoice: One of the backup singers during the "16 ways I love you" number is apparently...BrianBeacock. Yeah. [[Anime/DigimonTamers That Brian Beacock.]]

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* HeyItsThatVoice: One of the backup singers during the "16 ways I love you" number is apparently...BrianBeacock.Creator/BrianBeacock. Yeah. [[Anime/DigimonTamers That Brian Beacock.]]
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* StarMakingRole: for NaomiWatts.

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* StarMakingRole: for NaomiWatts.Creator/NaomiWatts.
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** Dan is played by Patrick Fischler, who's been in [[{{Lost}} way]] [[{{Southland}} too]] [[NashBridges many]] [[LANoire things]] [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} to]] [[MadMen count]].
** The espresso-swilling movie exec near the beginning of the film is the movie's composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Not his only cameo in a DavidLynch film, either.
** The creepy Mr. Roque is [[TwinPeaks the Man From Another Place]] (made up to look like a full-sized human being, for added UncannyValley effect).

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** Dan is played by Patrick Fischler, who's been in [[{{Lost}} [[Series/{{Lost}} way]] [[{{Southland}} [[Series/{{Southland}} too]] [[NashBridges many]] [[LANoire [[VideoGame/LANoire things]] [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} to]] [[MadMen [[Series/MadMen count]].
** The espresso-swilling movie exec near the beginning of the film is the movie's composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Not his only cameo in a DavidLynch Creator/DavidLynch film, either.
** The creepy Mr. Roque is [[TwinPeaks [[Series/TwinPeaks the Man From Another Place]] (made up to look like a full-sized human being, for added UncannyValley effect).
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with the film originally being intended as a pilot, Disney was supposed to release it (under their Touchstone label). However, they didn't like the final cut and ended up dropping it. Universal and Studio Canal ended up releasing it together.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with the film originally being intended as a pilot, Disney was supposed to release it (under their Touchstone Creator/TouchstonePictures label). However, they didn't like the final cut and ended up dropping it. Universal and Studio Canal ended up releasing it together.
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* StarMakingRole: for NaomiWatts.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: One of the backup singers during the "16 ways I love you" number is apparently...BrianBeacock. Yeah. [[Anime/DigimonTamers That Brian Beacock.]]
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** The creepy wheelchair-bound bigwig in the darkened office is [[TwinPeaks the Man From Another Place]] (made up to look like a full-sized human being, for added UncannyValley effect).

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** The creepy wheelchair-bound bigwig in the darkened office Mr. Roque is [[TwinPeaks the Man From Another Place]] (made up to look like a full-sized human being, for added UncannyValley effect).

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* HeyItsThatGuy: The espresso-swilling movie exec near the beginning of the film is the movie's composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Not his only cameo in a DavidLynch film, either.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: The Keshers' pool boy is played by "Achy Breaky" Billy Ray Cyrus.
** Coco is played by Ann Miller in her final role before she died.
** The incompetent hitman is [[{{Lost}} Jacob]].
** Dan is played by Patrick Fischler, who's been in [[{{Lost}} way]] [[{{Southland}} too]] [[NashBridges many]] [[LANoire things]] [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} to]] [[MadMen count]].
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The espresso-swilling movie exec near the beginning of the film is the movie's composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Not his only cameo in a DavidLynch film, either.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The espresso-swilling movie exec near the beginning of the film is the movie's composer, Angelo Badalamenti.

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* HeyItsThatGuy: The espresso-swilling movie exec near the beginning of the film is the movie's composer, Angelo Badalamenti. Not his only cameo in a DavidLynch film, either.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The espresso-swilling movie exec near the beginning of the film is the movie's composer, Angelo Badalamenti.
** The creepy wheelchair-bound bigwig in the darkened office is [[TwinPeaks the Man From Another Place]] (made up to look like a full-sized human being, for added UncannyValley effect).
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The movie was intended as a television pilot, which would have ended about when Rita cuts and dyes her hair. The networks balked and so Lynch re-worked it into a movie.


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Along with the film originally being intended as a pilot, Disney was supposed to release it (under their Touchstone label). However, they didn't like the final cut and ended up dropping it. Universal and Studio Canal ended up releasing it together.

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