Call it Extra-Legally Blonde. Or a modern-day Wizard of Oz wherein Dorothy, from Jacksonville, Florida, sets off for L.A. in her hi-tops accompanied by Toto, a squirmy beret-wearing Chihuahua named Starlet. From its first frame, a hint of a tousled head of blond hair against a yellowish wall, Sean Baker’s self-assured and achingly accu- rate glimpse of a so-called life in the other Hollywood, the low-budget porn industry in the San Fernando Valley, is a stunner. Dree Hemingway (Ernest’s great-granddaughter and Mariel’s daughter), all gawky limbs, porcelain pallor and American Apparel leg warmer tease, is 21-year-old Jane aka Tess Steele. Jane’s affectless, sweetly sardonic persona is a fine foil for the characters she comes into contact with on her journey down in the valley. Those types include the crotchety Sadie (Besedka Johnson), a good witch surrogate grandmother, pouty Melissa aka zana Valentine (Stella Maeve) and stoner Chinese-philosophy-spouting Mickey (James Ransone, the adept of auto-erotic asphyxiation in Ken Park). Baker (The Prince of Broadway, FNC 2009) maintains Cassavetes-like humanity, pathos and humor here, aided by the composed cinematography of Radium Cheung, whose fluid, sun- flared suburban landscapes and flat interiors make visual references to David Jacobson’s Down in the Valley and Bruno Dumont’s 29 Palms. — Madeleine Molyneaux