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Production Year: 2002 - Drama - Director: Lisa Cholodenko - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over more

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Just out of Harvard medical school, Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiancee Alex (Kate Beckinsale) seem destined for a life of privilege. Intending to find an apartment of their own...
more...in Los Angeles--where Sam will do his residency and Alex will complete her dissertation--they decide to stay temporarily with Jane (Francis McDormand), Sam's free-spirited, record producer mother who never provided straight-arrow Sam with the stability he so obviously craves. Jane has just left her longtime lover for Ian (Alessandro Nivolo), the young British musician whose band she is producing. At the expense of her studies, Alex gradually becomes entranced by Jane's carefree, pot-smoking ways--as well as by Ian--at the same time that Sam encounters temptation at the hospital in the form of Sara (Natasha McElhone), a beautiful young resident.
Lisa Cholodenko's (HIGH ART) film uses an unconventional mother-son relationship to examine how parents' decisions affect our lifestyle choices as adults. Playing the flipside of her role in ALMOST FAMOUS, McDormand imbues Jane with the appropriate libertine's spirit, an attitude that she finally turns her back on when it finally gets in the way of her son's future. An effective score by Craig Wedren and memorable songs by Sparklehorse lend authenticity to the film's music business backdrop.

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Review of Laurel Canyon DVD by TheChocolateLady

Advantages: Frances McDormand and the original music
Disadvantages: Kate Beckinsale isn't very believable

...- where else - on Laurel Canyon, a road in the heart of the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. This is the heart of what's left of Bohemia in that area, and totally appropriate that this film be located there. Plus, if you've ever driven around that area, you'll know that its totally stunning and with some of the most amazing looking homes you could ever hope to find. Getting inside one of them, and seeing the back yard is no small part of ... Read review

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