Laurel Canyon

I thought that the relationship between Sam and his mother Jane was interesting. It seemed like she had been a loser in the past, but that she really wanted to be his mother while he didn't really want to be her son. He tried to distance hiself from her both physically and socially. He went to school on the other side of the country from her to become a psychiatrist, his girlfriend is all ready an md going for her phd in god knows what, but it's something about fruitfly mating, and the only reason he's even living with her is because his residency is in the area.

Sam wouldn't even have stayed at his mother's house very long, except his girlfriend Alex kept lying about all the apartments she visited. It seemed like he was trying to get away from his mother the entire movie.

It bothered me a little that there wasn't much of a conclusion at the end of the movie either. Sam and his mother reconciled for the most part, but Alex never finished her dissertation and there was still the entire issue of Sam and Sara left entirely unresolved.