This Mulholland Drive movie timeline follows an aspiring actress, Betty Elms (Watts), who meets and befriends an amnesiac woman (Harring) recovering from a car accident. Several other vignettes and characters are introduced in the story, including a Hollywood film director (Theroux). The American-French co-production began as a television pilot. A huge portion of the film was shot in 1999 with Lynch's intention of leaving it open-ended for a possible series. However, after seeing Lynch's cut, television executives rejected it. Lynch then completed the project by turning it into a feature film. The half-pilot, half-feature result, combined with Lynch's signature surrealist style, has left the film's events open to interpretation.
