Laurel Canyon

Frances McDormand commands the screen with her tour-de-force-of-nature spin as Jane, a freewheeling, free-loving Los Angeles record producer who opens her Hollywood Hills home to her straitlaced doctor son Sam and his fiancée (Christian Bale, Kate Beckinsale). But cultures clash and generation gaps widen as mommie dearest and sonny dreariest lock horns. Natascha McElhone, Alessandro Nivola.