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Sideways (Widescreen Edition)

Sideways (Widescreen Edition)

zoom enlarge 		Director: Alexander Payne
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 518 reviews
Sales Rank: 2751

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Armenian (Original Language), English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 127
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: 024543175780
UPC: 024543175780
EAN: 0024543175780
ASIN: B0007TKOAA

Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 2005
Release Date: April 5, 2005
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
With Sideways, Paul Giamatti (American Splendor, Storytelling) has become an unlikely but engaging romantic lead. Struggling novelist and wine connoisseur Miles (Giamatti) takes his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church, Wings) on a wine-tasting tour of California vineyards for a kind of extended bachelor party. Almost immediately, Jack's insatiable need to sow some wild oats before his marriage leads them into double-dates with a rambunctious wine pourer (Sandra Oh, Under the Tuscan Sun) and a recently divorced waitress (Virginia Madsen, The Hot Spot)--and Miles discovers a little hope that he hasn't let himself feel in a long time. Sideways is a modest but finely tuned film; with gentle compassion, it explores the failures, struggles, and lowered expectations of mid-life. Giamatti makes regret and self-loathing sympathetic, almost sweet. From the director of Election and About Schmidt. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description
Miles and Jack, reaching middle-age and disappointed at the state of their lives, travel together through wine country a week before Jack is to be married in search of adventure and meaning in their lives.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-FEB-2007
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews:   Read 513 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Wine and Hope   July 4, 2008
The movie started out slow. It seemed to be about a couple of jerks, one a manipulator/liar and the other a "friend" who covers for the manipulator/liar. They are spending a week in the California wine country before one of them marries, but this groom lacks a certain fidelity. Both men seemed self-centered, boorish. At first I thought "Who cares?" But the film picked up and turned into a powerful portrait of the costs of friendship and the nature of hope. I think the two friends and the women they encounter are types of people that we all know. It captures the angst generated by failure and the resultant rejection. "Nobody wants you when you're down and out." There's an effective blend of pathos and humor. At first rather flat, it turned into a heady brew.


5 out of 5 stars Excellent film   June 26, 2008
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

The acting in this film is incredible. This film is not for anyone who thinks special effects, chase scenes, sex, or well known movie stars make a great movie. These people are very real, they don't do anything spectacular, like real people they have moments where they are doing just what they want to do, without any sense of how its affecting someone else, and other moments when they need to be everything they are, but just can't quite get there. It's filled with amazing dialogue and alot of really funny moments. I would recommend this film to anyone who likes substance and realism without the overblown characterisms and plots usually found in Hollywood films.


4 out of 5 stars Life is sweet, bitter, funny and stupid   June 25, 2008
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I just finished watching this film and admittedly was very hesitant too watch it in the first place. Having said that, I finely decided to rent it and take a look at the hype. I must said I was pleasantly surprised, and found it to be a highly intellectual film.


I do think that this film might be lost on non creative working people. Meaning if you have not been involved in the arts, acting, writing novels, photography, painting, dancing.......then you may not understand the struggles of the two main characters. Those two guys remind me so much of the type of people you meet in the world of the Arts. Meaning that the highs are high and the lows are low. Most of them are selfish and very weak people, as we will see with the two main characters.

I found 80% of the script to be spot on, and very realistic. The subject of wine was actually interesting, and I find wine info to be about as exciting as watching paint dry. But this storyteller did an outstanding job. There are moments where the dialogue is outstanding. When actress Virginia Madsen talks about why she got into wine, I was blown away. Very intense and impressive performance. However he and Giamatti being a pair just does not strike me as real. Ok, well it takes place in California so anything is possible!

What I find to be most impressive about this movie, is the fact that it is an accurate portrait of life in general. It just so happens that a wild number of things occur in a few days in the film. But if you stretch that out in your own life, you'll find that we all go through things like this. So the message to me if you find this film confusing is to really "look before you leap," in the decisions you make with your life.

I do not consider this film to be a comedy, it has funny moments to be sure. I consider it a drama, that is very serious. I do not wish to refer to it as a chick flick, but there are moments when it comes close. I think I would call it a life lesson film. So if you want insight into your own life and how to relate that to others, then I think this film might offer you a gaze into that world.


2 out of 5 stars Who cares?   June 18, 2008
 1 out of 5 found this review helpful

Start with two two-dimensional characters, the neurotic angst-filled aspiring author and the lower-tier TV actor.

(The latter, by the way, is played by Thomas Hayden Church, so he's certainly familiar with the territory.)

Add a simple plot. Tour California wine country and get laid as much as possible before the wedding. And drunk. Throw in cardboard cutout womens and wonder why nobody laughs at the "humor."

(I misspelled "womens" because they're that irrelevant here.)

The one-liners didn't hit their target, the plot is so familiar, and I don't care at all about the characters. I needed 45 minutes to turn it off, but that was because I'd just collapsed on a floor mat after a workout. It really isn't worth 45 minutes of my life.

But on the plus side, the scenery is truly gorgeous.



5 out of 5 stars Review   June 11, 2008
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Funny movie about life. Loved it when I first saw it on the screen. Although I still love drinking Merlot with dinner! Good for your heart!

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