Laurel Canyon (DVD)

Title: Laurel Canyon Director: Lisa Cholodenko Running Time: 1 hr 39 mins approximately Starring: Frances McDormand, Kate Beckinsdale, Christian Bale, Natascha McElhone & Allessandro Nivola DVD retail price: £6.99 **************************************************************************** If Joni Mitchell and Spinal Tap were to team up in some fictional alter-reality with the aim of producing a movie, you could perhaps then explain how ‘Laurel Canyon’ came into being. Lisa Cholodenko’s follow up to her breakthrough ‘High Art’ is a rock and roll soap opera of the rich and spoiled, set, ...

Ever since I saw the movie Fargo, I've never refused to see any film that has Frances McDormand in it. Mind you, I don't always get the chance to indulge in this little eccentricity of mine, but I do often try. I even became a fan of the TV show "State of Grace" partially because it was she who did the narration of the series. So when my husband borrowed the DVD of this movie, which he'd seen while in China, I found an evening when no one was at home, popped a bag of popcorn into the microwave and sat back to enjoy. However, I wasn't totally prepared for what I was about to witness. On the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb) site, the plot outline is ...

Director: Lisa Cholodenko Starring: Frances McDormand, Kate Beckinsale, Christian Bale Running time: 103 minutes Summed up in a sentence: A classic take on the embarrassing parent scenario. A bit more info: Accurate casting and fine performances from the whole cast turn a potentially lacklustre premise into a wonderful film. Frances McDormand shines as Jane, an incredibly successful pot-smoking record producer who's fooling around with her latest discovery - a cocksure toyboy. When Jane's straight-laced doctor son and his wife come to stay, the wife is exposed to a hedonistic lifestyle of drink, drugs and ...