Sideways
Struggling writer and wine enthusiast Miles (Paul Giamatti) takes his engaged friend, Jack (Thomas Haden Church), on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
21 July 1970, Gainesville, Florida, USA
3 October 1984, Santa Cruz, California, USA
11 September 1979, Ventura County, California, USA
17 June 1960, Yolo, California, USA
28 June 1965, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
January 3, 1986 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia]
9 August 1972, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
22 October 1973, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
18 March 1988, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
25 October 1933, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
6 June 1967, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
11 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 January 1948, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
22 August 1984, San Diego, California, USA
25 January 1965
6 December 1950, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 January 1952, Brooklyn, New York, USA
17 April 1982, Concord, California, USA
20 January 1941, Steelton, Pennsylvania, USA
October 01, 2010
"Sideways" is about wine aged to perfection sipped by men who've aged to mediocrity - softer, hornier versions of Walter and The Dude. But Miles's brutal honesty is its soul. He's annoyingly, depressingly out there, but never fraudulent.
November 01, 2007
Sideways stays resolutely life-size. And that, in this age of hype and hyperventilation, may be the most radical thing about it.
November 12, 2004
Much like Altman, Hal Ashby and Billy Wilder -- three filmmakers whose movies are celebrated for their naturalism, their humanism and their wicked, often merciless satire -- Payne makes films about ordinary people with their rumples and flaws left intact,
September 03, 2010
Giamatti handily raises what could've been a pedestrian road trip romance into the stratosphere of a world-class character study
May 24, 2013
Payne's most enjoyable movie since Election
February 13, 2012
Payne does know how to capture two kinds of male menopause. But I can't say he ever surprised me.
May 21, 2005
Intelligent, funny and moving.
December 28, 2010
Excellent but explicit movie is not for kids.
October 18, 2008
This wonderfully satisfying study in human nature is funny and sad and profoundly entertaining from start to finish.
November 12, 2004
This isn't the sort of road comedy we're used to seeing. Its humor is more likely to provoke smiles and light chuckles than guffaws.
April 29, 2009
A very memorable slice of life.
November 19, 2004
Payne has made a movie for the same sorts of people, one with body and 'nose' and character that movie lovers will savor long after the credits have rolled.
