Woah, looks like I missed something major.
Some arthouse movies are good, some arthosue movies are too busy trying to be arthouse and spend too little time trying to be a good movie.
I agree sometimes Lauren jokes too much, I read an article YEARS ago, where she opened up about her Mother, and it was really vunerable and delicate and interesting to read, but i've never found it again.
Parenthood looks ok, too much like Lorelai for my liking. I guess she suffers from the same problem most people who've been on an iconic show have, which is that people like seeing them as one thing, and get very little coverage in different roles. I'm well aware that she's played other roles, but in mainstream, unfortunatly, she'll always be Lorelai gilmore, or similar.