Laurel Canyon
(DVD) 

Special features: director commentary; featurette; filmographies; weblink.

Director of photography, Wally Pfister ; art director, Stephanie Gilliam ; editor, Amy E. Duddleston ; original music score, Craig Wedren ; costume designer, Cindy Evans ; production designer, Catherine Hardwicke.

Frances Mcdormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, Natascha McElhone, Alessandro Nivola.

Harvard graduate Sam and his fiance?e, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boy toy, Ian's band. Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a dissertation on genomics, but is soon distracted. Meanwhile, Sam is equally distracted by the beautiful intern Sara.

MPAA rating: R; for sexuality, language and drug use.

DVD format; Dolby, DTS surround sound, Region 1 encoding.

English dialogue; French subtitles.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Director's View Film Festival, 2003: Dorothy Arzner Prize (Lisa Cholodenko).