Mulholland Drive is a 2001 psychological thriller film directed by David Lynch. The film follows the story of Betty Elms, an aspiring actress, and Rita, a woman suffering from amnesia, as they search for clues to Rita's identity. Along the way, they uncover a
Mulholland Drive is a street and road in the eastern Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California. It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland. The western rural portion in Los Angeles and Ventura counties is named Mulholland Highway. The road is featured in a significant number of films, songs, and novels. David Lynch, who wrote and directed a film named after Mulholland Drive, has said that one can feel "the history of Hollywood" on it. Jack Nicholson has lived on Mulholland Drive for many years, and still did so as of 2009.