Sideways made a pretty big splash back in 2004 when it came out, quickly becoming the "wine movie" as I can't think of any other movies about wine. It's a comedy that's usually not "ha-ha" funny- if you've seen Paul Giamatti in anything you probably know that kind of weird sort of pitiful style of character he often plays. Here he's a recent divorcee who along with his best friend, a small-time actor played by Thomas Haden Church, sets out on a week-long tour of the California wine country for an old man version of a bachelor party.You watch Paul struggle with his recently ended marriage and Thomas struggle with the fact that he's about to enter into marriage, and they meet some women in wine country who make the week a little more complicated. I know my description makes it sound kinda boring but this was actually pretty good! I saw it several weeks ago yet I still remember a lot of what happened here. Of course if you don't like Paul Giamatti then you'll probably want to avoid.
"I'm NOT drinking MERLOT!" Did that ever happen? Or was that just one of our impressions of the movie like ten years ago?
ReplyDeleteYep, I remembered that line from the commercials and it came about halfway through the movie when Church's characters is trying to get Giamatti to play nice on their little double date despite the fact that they might have to drink some less than stellar wine. Giamatti flips out, gets shitfaced and drunk dials his ex-wife.
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