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LA - where the freeways loop the loop, straights fear to tread,
and the stars get so high they're spinning. Sam (Bale) and his
fiancée Alex (Beckinsale), Harvard Med School alumni steeped,
respectively, in psychiatry and fruit-fly sex, are the town's
latest new blood, come to borrow his mother's crash pad out
north of the Hollywood Hills, abashed to find they'll be rubbing
noses with her latest live-in rock retinue. A confirmed lady of
the canyon, Jane (McDormand) is a successful record producer and
unreconstructed hedonist, currently banging the drum with her
Brit-band charges' lead singer (Nivola), a fellow swinger
something like her son's age. Hot under the collar, Sam immerses
himself in work and the attentions of a sexy colleague, Sara
(McElhone). Left to her flies, Alex finds her curiosity
stimulated by the rhythms down the hall. A sensuous, fluent
follow-up to her boho lesbian e