A troubled actress (Laura Dern, in a towering performance) begins to lose herself in the role she is playing—a woman whose husband wants to kill her—in David Lynch's most radical and unsettling film. Shot on digital video in a fragmented, dreamlike style that obliterates the line between fiction and reality, Inland Empire is a three-hour descent into paranoia, identity dissolution, and the dark underside of Hollywood mythology. Dense, hypnotic, and genuinely frightening, it is Lynch's most extreme statement and a landmark of digital cinema.