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1. Jack Nance starred in David Lynch's first full-length feature film, centering on a man named Henry Spencer. Henry lived in an industrialized world with his disgruntled girlfriend and mutated newborn baby. Not too long after the baby's arrival, Henry had troubling dreams about being wooed by the girl down the hall, the baby dying, and having his head chopped off. What was the title of this movie?
2. Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, and Anne Bancroft appeared in a film about a surgeon who saved a severely disfigured man from being abused while working as a side-show freak. Behind the man's hideous façade, there was a person of true aptitude and compassion in what film, based on John Merrick's life?
3. A politician's family was sent to a planet which was entirely covered in sand. They were voyaging because a resource necessary for space travel known as "spice" was located there. However, it was a ploy to assassinate them, but the son managed to flee and seek revenge. What was the name of this film?
4. At the beginning, Jeffrey Beaumont discovered a severed human ear in a field. Soon after, he became conscious of a crime-world that existed in his seemingly pleasant hometown. Jeffrey was linked with a gang, led by the foul-mouthed Frank, after spying on the gorgeous Dorothy, a sexual partner of Frank. Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini starred in this 1986 film called what?
5. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern were in a film about two lovers named Sailor and Luna. They were on the run because Luna's mother didn't approve of her daughter's relationship with Sailor. The mother hired an assortment of people to hunt down and murder him. What was the title of this picture?
6. David Lynch created "Twin Peaks", a popular television series. It ran for two seasons before its cancellation. Shortly after the termination, he released a movie prequel to the show. It was about an FBI agent who vanished while working the case of a murder outside Twin Peaks that may have correlated to another murder within the town itself. What was the prequel called?
7. In one of Lynch's most peculiar films, a jazz saxophonist was made to look like he killed his wife, resulting in him being sent to prison. Not too long after his incarceration, he mysteriously turned into a young mechanic, whose life he took over. From then on, their lives begin to cross, bound together by a gangster named Dick Laurent. What was the title of this movie?
8. An elderly man, played by Richard Farnsworth, made an exceptionally long trip from Iowa to Wisconsin on his riding lawnmower, to fix the bad relationship he had with a sick brother. Which movie presented Farnsworth with an Oscar nomination for the role, which would be his last?
9. A lady, played by Laura Herring, developed amnesia after an unfortunate car accident. She met a lively young woman, portrayed by Naomi Watts, who was aspiring to be a film actress. The duo traveled about Los Angeles in search of Herring's true identity, driving through reality and fantasy in doing so. What was the name of this movie?
10. Laura Dern returned in another Lynch picture, as an actress who developed feelings for a co-star, while filming a remake of an allegedly cursed Polish movie. The line dividing actuality and dream blurred for Dern's character as she discovered her life mimicking the events of the fictional movie, in what David Lynch picture?
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