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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Randall Miller
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Actors:
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Alan Rickman,
Rachael Taylor,
Kirk Baily,
Hal B. Klein,
Jean-Michel Richaud,
Chris Pine,
Dennis Farina,
Bill Pullman,
Freddy Rodríguez,
Philippe Bergeron
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Duration:
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110 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)68
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Plot Summary:
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In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to apprehend the kindest he can find to Paris as a replacement for a dazzle tactfulness test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's tax in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his overseer Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and uncage spirit, mutually attracted to both Gustavo and Bo. As Spurrier organizes the "Judgment of Paris," Jim doesn't nece... ssitate to participate while Bo knows it's their only chance. Barrett's chardonnay has buttery notes and a Smithsonian death.
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Bottle Shock
Randall Miller's Flask Shocker is inspired aside a single real-life circumstance - the so-called Determination of Paris, when a series of red and white French wines were compared close experts in a indiscriminate tasting against those from California. Yet to the credit of Miller, who co-wrote the script with his producer-ball Jody Savin, this charming comedy-acting is no pseudo-documentary. Rather, he's crafted an sanguine David v Goliath tale that has a saucy mesmerize all of its own. Weigh in 1976, the year of the American bicentennial celebrations, the scoop starts in Paris where ex-patty British wine-expert Stephen Spurrier (Alan Rickman) runs the tasting mould known as L'Academie Du Vin and the crafty (but not notably moneymaking) Madeleine wine look for....
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