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.
9 August 1972, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
21 July 1970, Gainesville, Florida, USA
22 October 1973, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
25 October 1933, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
11 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
22 August 1984, San Diego, California, USA
14 January 1953, Stanislaus County, California, USA
20 January 1941, Steelton, Pennsylvania, USA
January 3, 1986 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia]
17 June 1960, Yolo, California, USA
May 24, 2013
Payne's most enjoyable movie since Election
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.
May 21, 2005
Intelligent, funny and moving.
April 29, 2009
A very memorable slice of life.
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.
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,
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.
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.
February 13, 2012
Payne does know how to capture two kinds of male menopause. But I can't say he ever surprised me.
September 03, 2010
Giamatti handily raises what could've been a pedestrian road trip romance into the stratosphere of a world-class character study
