Sideways
If you haven’t seen it yet, you need to add Sidways to you list of movies to check out. A story about two friends on a bachelor party trip to Santa Barbara’s wine country, it’s a funny flick with terrific character development. I’m not sure why it hasn’t gotten wider distribution, as I think it would have done just as well outside of the independent movie circuit.
By coincidence, for Brandon’s bachelor party, we also took a trip to the region a year or so back. During the movie, I thought I recognized one of the vineyards as one we visited; a theory latter confirmed by Brandon.
Also by coincidence, our friend Alan — the most wine savvy individual I know — was in town this weekend. His current job is vice president of wines for Christie’s Auctioneers and, in between watching the Jets miss a stunning two consecutive field goals to his precious Steelers, he let us in on an “in” joke from the movie: apparently the ’61 Cheval Blanc, the one that Miles was holding away for a special occasion, is a blend of merlot & cabernet, the two specific wines over which he threw many a fit.
(Okay, not that funny, but whoever associated wine people with funny?)
January 17th, 2005 at 8:21 pm
I saw Paul Giamatti on the Daily Show recently and he was hilarious. As was the clip of Sideways that they played.