Release Year: 2002 Rating: R Duration: 103 minutes Director: Lisa Cholodenko Producer: Susan A. Stover, Jeff Levy-Hinte Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
This is the story of a pot-smoking, free-wheeling Los Angeles record producer (McDormand), with a rock star boyfriend (Nivola), whose straight-laced son (Bale) comes back home after graduation from Harvard Medical School with his rich fiancé (Beckinsale), who's working on a book. Although mother and son are initially at odds, their relationship begins to change when he discovers that his bride-to-be likes his mother's rock-n-roll lifestyle too.
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Alessandro Nivola as Ian McKnight Christian Bale as Sam Frances McDormand as Jane Kate Beckinsale as Alex Natascha McElhone as Sara