Alexandra Carter

Laurel Canyon -- With misgivings and outright dread, Sam Bentley, newly graduated from Harvard Medical School, goes with his blue-blood girlfriend/fiancee, Alex Elliott, back to his mother's house in Los Angeles while he begins his residency in psychiatry at UCLA. Estranged from his pot-smoking, sexually liberated,record producer mother, Sam finds her unchanged, except for her new boyfriend, a band singer named Ia

Academy Award® winner Frances McDormand (Almost Famous, Fargo) stars in the sexy and witty story of a hard-living, free-thinking, rock-and-roll record producer who finds herself unexpectedly sharing a house with her straight-laced son and his super-conservative bride- to-be. Written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko (award- winning director of High Art) and also starring Christian Bale (American Psycho), Kate Beckinsale (Pearl Harbor), Natascha McElhone (Solaris) and Alessandro Nivola (Jurassic Park III).

Psychiatrist Sam and his fiancee Alex move to Los Angeles in the Laurel Canyon hills for his residency. Alex soon gets distracted by the free and hedonistic lifestyle going on around her. Meanwhile, Sam is equally distracted by a resident doctor.

When an uptight young man and his fiancee move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.