I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Well, a lot of you consider her as a non looker. However, for me, she is like a plug : i really feel electrified by her charisma and for that, she is as good as a lot of those sexy babes that i put on my list! Usually, this tension is on when there is a halo effect but here i can't remember a look alike girl that i would know. Sure, she is a bit like Madonna (#50) and Janine Lindemulder (#26) and maybe a Swedish girl i know but i'm sure that there's something more i can't explain yet.. What's sure is that when « Mississipi » aired again in July 2014, she literally illuminated my evening and thus i started to follow her movies. I would never expected to review one of her movies here but this one is really worthy of it ! This « Laurel canyon » is totally terrific and exciting as for one time, Frances gets very loose : i understand that she wanted to try nudity and pushes her usual envelope and honestly she wins! flashing her tits, unzipping her man, swimming nude and having a sort of threesome with a girl… The fact that her partner is Beckinsale just adds some more spice and truly things really get hot in that canyon!

I rented this movie several times. Today I bought it so I can see it anytime I want. My review is like the guy that wanted more for an ending and the other reviews that like Kate, but think that nudity would be better in this movie.It brings back memories. I was an ER doc at Santa Monica Hospital 12hr shifts, 5 days on 5 days off. I was invited to a lot of parties in Venice Beach, Laurel Canyon, Malibu. Good memories. I never drink more than 1 beer per day (ER docs only see the bad things that happen), but I love that life style. It is not for me, but I had a great time being part of it. Advice to the director: Do this film again. This time get an actress that will jump into it and give it 'her all'. I am not asking for an xxx film, but you already have R rating. Do it correctly the next time. Also, don't quit so soon. I want to see more with Sam and Sara. I want to see what happens with Alex (I married a girl like that and I am a guy like Sam) You have a great 'showtime' novel. I could compare it to 'Californication' but with REAL people and a REAL life outcome, less drinking and drugs and more REAL life. This is more than one of those day-time soaps. Southern California is an exciting mystery to the rest of the world. I have been around and talked to a lot of people from all over the world. They are all fascinated by California, movie people and crazy lifestyles. They may not be real but are exciting and captivating. Most people are like me: I could never live that lifestyle, but I love to imagine myself in it. I will watch your work long after I retire. You could make showtime a fortune. It is worth 5 seasons minimum.

Recall the MTv video for Tom Petty's "Into the Great Wide Open," Johnny Depp's "Eddie Rebel" and Faye Dunaway's would-be talentmeister. Rocket to Stardom. Everybody's got their knobs on "11." Where's the next new face, the next new pair of legs, the next new set of…?Pieces and players in the utterly denied, approval-seeking chess game we play up here back of the sign. We think we really =are= soooooooooo clever and on top of our… games. But we're just as obviously duplicitous, manipulative, competitive, seductive, jealous, petty, stimulation-obsessed and stupid when we're stoned as those people on Whittier or Budlong. We all run around declaiming that narcissism (as well as our determination to stay that way). But the instant an opportunity comes our way, the money's down. Everybody north of Ventura or east of Lankershim wants to =be= us. Or what they think we are. They should watch this first.Beckinsale =should= do more films like this (and she has). Francis should, too (and she does). Okay; now that all that's out of my system: This is an okay little art house piece actors and directors love to make to look at how people say this and do that. And then drive their little yellow school buses full of curious but confused, rule-bound but over-excited inner children over the cliff. In this one, at least, the characters "take responsibility" for the consequences the way people in Beverly Hills tend to… and then go right back to whatever it was they were doing to jack their lives up. Boredom is just the very worst thing one can admit to up here. And I really need to see a film like this every now and again.

Writer/director Lisa Cholodenko follows up her much-acclaimed 1997 debut High Art with this examination of a young couple seduced into a hedonistic, left-coast lifestyle. Taking its title from its central locale, Laurel Canyon focuses on a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles.The film stars Frances McDormand, Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale, Natascha McElhone, and Alessandro Nivola.Freshly graduating from Harvard,Sam and Alex are eager to continue their medical studies out West, but they need some lodging while they hunt for a home. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mom, who's more than willing to put the couple up in her lavish digs. Jane is a successful record producer whose latest charge -- both in the studio and in her bedroom -- is Ian , a brazen, libidinous twenty-something Brit-rocker. As Sam and Alex settle in at Jane's, they gradually lose their straight-and-narrow approach to life and begin to experiment. Alex takes to Ian and Jane, while Sam is wooed by co-worker Sara.This film is a character-study about self-realization.The performances of the actors and actresses involved were worthy of commendation.Frances McDormand is terrific in her new role as record producer,mother,and corrupter of curious girls.While the rest like Bale,Beckinsale and Nivola were outstanding as well.But inspite of its unconventional storyline,the movie will leave people hanging and with a feeling unsatisfied as the movie turns into entertainment instead of providing better explanations about the characters in it except for the fact that they are seduced by the culture of Los Angeles - wherein Laurel Canyon is located and nothing more.