Blue Velvet
“It's a strange world, isn't it?”
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Genres
Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Studio
DEG
Language
en
Status
Released
How Blue Velvet performed
Budget
$6.0M
Worldwide Gross
$8.6M
Gross Profit
$2.6M
Return
1.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$1M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~47/53, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Mystery) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Dorothy Vallens
Isabella Rossellini
Dorothy Vallens
Jeffrey Beaumont
Kyle MacLachlan
Jeffrey Beaumont
Frank Booth
Dennis Hopper
Frank Booth
Sandy Williams
Laura Dern
Sandy Williams
Mrs. Williams
Hope Lange
Mrs. Williams
Ben
Dean Stockwell
Ben
Detective Williams
George Dickerson
Detective Williams
Mrs. Beaumont
Priscilla Pointer
Mrs. Beaumont
Aunt Barbara
Frances Bay
Aunt Barbara
Mr. Beaumont
Jack Harvey
Mr. Beaumont
Mike
Ken Stovitz
Mike
Raymond
Brad Dourif
Raymond
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