Virtually all critics panned a film. A look of a film was praised, including the act of camera operator Haskell Wexler, but the film was criticized for the abuse of the talent cast & a confusing plot.

Peter Fold writing for the San Francisco Chronicle notes:

Mulholland Lessens fall through much. A right of the old noir detective dramas had lively pacing & crisp hard-guy dialogue. This film seems at days prefer an exercise withwithin slow motion & in dull, cumbersome writing (a script is by Pete Dexter, who wrote a Rush screenplay).

A film was shot within location in Los Angeles, California and Wendover, Utah. Cast

Nick Nolte as Max Hoover Melanie Griffith as Katherine Hoover Chazz Palminteri as Elleroy Coolidge Michael Madsen as Eddie Hall Chris Penn as Arthur Relyea Treat Williams as Colonel Nathan Fitzgerald Jennifer Connelly as Allison Pond Daniel Baldwin as McCafferty Andrew McCarthy as Jimmy Fields John Malkovich as General Thomas Timms Additionally, there are cameo appearances from either actors Bruce Dern, William L. Petersen and Rob Lowe.