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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Alexander Payne
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Actors:
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Stephanie Faracy,
Patrick Gallagher,
Shaun Duke,
Missy Doty,
Alysia Reiner,
Shake Tukhmanyan,
Robert Covarrubias,
Joe Marinelli,
Paul Giamatti,
Thomas Haden Church,
Virginia Madsen,
Sandra Oh,
Marylouise Burke,
Jessica Hecht,
M.C. Gainey
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Duration:
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126 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)149.5
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Plot Summary:
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Miles is a failed wordsmith living a meager existence in San Diego as an English teacher. With his career seemingly fading and the life of a book hinging on a publisher's settlement, Miles is depressed with himself and what he hasn't achieved. Jack is a box actor whom some appreciate but not many do, as if he were a teenager actor who got a know of success. With his excellent pen-pal Miles, the two initiate on a alleyway trip to the core California's wine country. Miles wants to give his friend a superb sendoff before married life, while Jack just wants to have a fling beforehand. As they're b... oth nearing middle adulthood with not much to appearance as regards it, the two will explore the vineyards while at the end of the day searching for their identities.Read more Less
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Sideways
To be honest about Miles and Jack, something they never are about themselves, you'd have to admit they're morally sketchy characters. Feckless and self-absorbed, they're fraudulent even to their best friends, i.e. each other. Spending a week in their intimate company sounds like a chore, or worse.
It is the counterintuitive triumph of Sideways, the wonderful new film by Alexander Payne, to turn seven days with these scoundrels into a completely satisfying movie that quietly, gently blows you away. Exactly written, directed with a surgeon's precision and transcendently acted, Sideways brings emotional reality to a consistently amusing character comedy, making it something to be cherished like the delicate Santa Ynez Valley wines that are the story's vivid backdrop.
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Sideways
a bygone bottle of wine popped at objective the right moment, Alexander Payne's accept-up to About Schmidt is that rarest of things in Hollywood: an enriching, crackpot-based comedy in which every single consideration can be savoured. Crabwise has no wasted lines, no expendable scenes and no extraneous acting: in short it's as exquisitely crafted a film as you could want for and certainly Payne's finest film to go out with. Having kicked wrong his mark coat livelihood with the spiky abortion ridicule Householder Ruth, followed before Choosing and Around Schmidt, Laterally represents a much warmer side to him. Its comedy is more focussed and its characters more get-at-able. So it's undoubtedly to windfall aid with those who felt About Schmidt was somewhat ove...
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