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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Lisa Cholodenko |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony Pictures |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Live, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 043396002166 |
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Customer Reviews of Laurel Canyon
Amazing film and performances! I rented this when it was first released on DVD, and it gets better each time I watch it. The fact that the British actors (Beckinsale and Bale) play Americans and the American actor (Nivola) plays a Brit is cool and they're utterly convinving. All the performances are uniformly excellent, but Frances McDormand...is beyond brilliant. She's so convincing that I showed this to a friend, and not until the end of the film did I tell him this was the same woman who played Marge Gunderson in _Fargo_...needless to say, he was shocked. This woman can do anything. I'd watch her read the phone book. Why isn't she the lead in more movies, "independent" or otherwise?
Subtle and Provocative
Frances McDormand delivers a superb performance as a middle-aged, free-loving record producer; with a believable sixty's laden sensibility, dragging on joints, sipping on non-stop cocktails and making love to the young English rock star in her swimming pool. Life for this fun-loving hippie seems to be one big party until her son, Sam (Christian Bale) arrives with his girl friend, (Kate Beckinsale) and two lifestyles clash creating some interesting results.
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>Sam begins his residency at a local hospital as an aspiring psychiatrist. He is a serious young man with something to prove. Having been raised by a flower child mother, sex, drugs and rock and roll all around him, surprisingly, he ends up a Harvard Medical School graduate with definite goals. Sam's girlfriend is also a serious type, a PhD student writing her dissertation on the reproductive behaviour of fruit flies, this beautiful though inhibited young woman begins to enjoy the free-loving lifestyle at the house, revealing a side to her personality that even she was not aware of. This character's transformation from a shy girl to a woman exploring her sexuality is a subtle one but with profound implications.
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>The relationship between Sam and his mother is strained though on the surface fairly amicable. It is obvious that he thinks she's irresponsible and a bit left-of-centre yet has more or less accepted her for what she is...however, mother complains several times throughout the film that they don't have a "relationship" which Sam cannot understand. This film is about relationships that exist on many levels, but more importantly, it is about acceptance, granting people the space to be who they are and to develop into what they could be.
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>Sam's ordered life is also challenged when he meets a beautiful fellow resident and begins a subtle game of flirtations and innuendo, which drives him to feel guilt for even entertaining the idea of an affair. His guilty behaviour is played-out one night when he comes home after kissing the beautiful doctor, and complains to his girlfriend why they never married and that her father hates him, etc. Bale is an excellent actor, over the past 19 years he has developed a style and method all his own. I believe he is just getting better and better.
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>Laurel Canyon is certainly no blockbuster or an art house film, but lies somewhere comfortably in the middle. The performances are all first-rate, revealing a subtle transformation in all the characters, leaving the viewer with something to think about.
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The rich do have their problems
A very interesting film. What an interesting and potentially explosive situation. At first I thought the ending was a bit abrupt, but now I'm satisfied with it.