Laurel Canyon Page #4

Synopsis: Newly graduated psychiatrist Sam and his fiancee Alex move to Los Angeles for Sam's residency and into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon. Only problem is, Sam's mother is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for the band of her new boy toy, Ian. She 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 on her work (finishing a dissertation on genomics), but is soon distracted by the rock-'n-roll lifestyle going on around her. Meanwhile, Sam is equally distracted by beautiful Israeli intern Sara.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Lisa Cholodenko
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2002
103 min
$3,596,939
Website
538 Views


I should just get some air.

Air is good..

Always better than

a cocktail at this hour.

I'll let you listen to

the record some time if you want.

Sure.

I'd like to,

I'd like that. Thanks.

You'll be helping us out.

It's like a psychic sauna...

...in there at this point.

We're wasted.

Well, I'd love to listen but

I don't think I'll be much of help.

I don't really know anything

about popular music.

You sure do.

Anyone with instinct knows about

popular music. That's why it's popular.

You strike me as someone

with strong instinct.

I guess so.

But you know when you're repulsed

or when you're turned on, right?

I suppose so,

in general, I guess.

That's all that it is. Either

it pulls you in, or it leaves you cold.

So you want some?

It's great for the colon.

No, thanks.

They're definitely taking it?

Okay. Thank you.

Hi. I'm calling about the apartment.

Okay. Alright, thanks.

Everything alright?

Yes.

- What did you get?

- Food.

That's good timing,

I'm famished. Get on.

No, I'm fine.

I need the exercise.

You'll have a heart attack dragging

that load up the mountain.

No, I'm fine. Really.

Jane asked me to get you,

sweetheart. Get on.

I promise I won't tell your parents.

You really didn't have

to get me, you know. I'm fine.

Hold on to me.

Tighter.

- Where are you staying now?

- Up in Laurel Canyon.

It's just that the house that we're in

was supposed to be empty, but...

my mother is producing

a record there.

She went down

because she left her boyfriend

and she gave him

her beach house.

because...

Anyway, it's convoluting

and never interesting.

No, it's definitely interesting.

Really it's more a logistics

issue at the moment.

That was you in the car, right?

Yes. You almost killed me.

- Yes... I'm sorry.

- You should be.

It's unbelievable. Every call I made,

someone has was just having it.

It's fine, I'll stay here honey.

I don't mind.

But she's anywhere,

I mean, she...

she has no bounds

and you need your privacy.

She's not in my way.

I'm working in private,

- it's not a problem.

- What about the noise?

They're very respectful

when the door is closed.

- And when it is not?

- Well, then it's open.

- Can you hear them?

- No, not really.

"Nor really"? That

was a "yes", right?

No, that means "No, not really".

What are you doing?

I'm just trying...

...to work it on.

Just trying on.

- You are?

- Yeah.

- Okay. Can she pick you up tomorrow?

- Yes, she said she could.

- Okay. Then, I'll start looking.

- Good. That'll be good.

We should look in the Valley.

It's cheaper and quieter.

North Hollywood or something.

Hey, Mickey is here with us.

They are all here.

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Lisa Cholodenko

Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and director of film and television. She wrote and directed the films High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002) and The Kids Are All Right (2010). For the latter film she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay in 2010. She has also directed numerous works for television, including the 2014 miniseries Olive Kitteridge for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film. more…

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