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Sideways
Before his wedding, Jack, a former actor, who goes with his best friend, Miles Raymond, a miserable teacher, to the wine country, in order to celebrate, but there, incidents come to challenge them, as Jack has an affair with a beautiful woman.
6 December 1950, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 January 1957
January 3, 1986 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia]
28 June 1965, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
20 July 1971, Nepean, Ontario, Canada
25 October 1933, Dorking, Surrey, England, UK
14 January 1953, Stanislaus County, California, USA
21 February 1968, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
3 October 1984, Santa Cruz, California, USA
October 18, 2008
This wonderfully satisfying study in human nature is funny and sad and profoundly entertaining from start to finish.
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.
April 29, 2009
A very memorable slice of life.
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.
December 28, 2010
Excellent but explicit movie is not for kids.
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.
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 21, 2005
Intelligent, funny and moving.
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.
February 13, 2012
Payne does know how to capture two kinds of male menopause. But I can't say he ever surprised me.
May 24, 2013
Payne's most enjoyable movie since Election