Sideways

2004 • 127 minutes
4.0
79 reviews
97%
Tomatometer
R
Rating
Eligible
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About this movie

The misadventures begin when Miles (Paul Giamatti), an un-recovered divorcé and would-be novelist with a wine fixation, decides to gift old college buddy and washed-up actor Jack (Thomas Haden Church) with a celebratory trip to the vineyards of the Santa Ynez Valley the week before Jack's wedding. The two couldn't be an odder couple. Jack is an over-sexed charmer; Miles is a sad-sack worrier. Jack is looking for his "last taste of freedom"; Miles just wants to taste perfection in a bottle. Jack is fine with cheap Merlot; Miles pines for the elusive, perfect Pinot. Indeed, the only thing they seem to share in common is the same heady mix of failed ambitions and fading youth. And yet, as they make their way up the coast, Miles and Jack soon find themselves drowning in wine and women. Both men careen dangerously and comically toward mid-life crises. Now, the wedding approaches and with it the certainty that Miles and Jack won't make it back to Los Angeles unscathed or unchanged...if they get back there at all.
Rating
R

Ratings and reviews

4.0
79 reviews
Antonio Maria Cristini
September 18, 2014
Il vino protagonista merita un film migliore
31 people found this review helpful
Fides Monique Paderna
August 1, 2016
superb. well-executed. understated. terribly funny.
29 people found this review helpful
Мишаник
August 19, 2020
плахой фильм