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Sideways premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2004, and was released in the United States on October 22, 2004. It received widespread acclaim from critics and is regarded as one of the greatest films of the 2000s.
May 13, 2017 · The basic premise of the film ‘Sideways’ involves two middle-aged men who are close friends, Miles Raymond (played by Paul Giamatti) and Jack Cole (starring Thomas Haden Church) that decide to take a week long Bachelor’s trip up to the wine country of Napa Valley in California to celebrate Jack’s upcoming wedding and the end of his ...
Oct 28, 2004 · Comedy. 126 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2004. Roger Ebert. October 28, 2004. 5 min read. Miles (Paul Giamatti) takes his best friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) on a trek of self-discovery through California's wine country in "Sideways."
In the wine country, the men encounter Maya (Virginia Madsen), a waitress at Miles's favorite restaurant, The Hitching Post, and her friend, Stephanie (Sandra Oh), an employee at a local winery. They arrange a double date without revealing that Jack is to be married.
- Roger Cormier
- ALEXANDER PAYNE READ THE BOOK ON WHICH IT'S BASED ON A FLIGHT BACK FROM A FILM FESTIVAL. The director was flying back from Edinburgh, where he had been at a film festival promoting Election, when he finally had a chance to read Rex Pickett’s book Sideways.
- GEORGE CLOONEY WANTED TO PLAY JACK. Payne and Clooney met to talk about the part, then Payne lost touch with the actor. Seven years later, Payne cast Clooney in The Descendants.
- THOMAS HADEN CHURCH STRIPPED DOWN FOR HIS AUDITION. The Wings star was the only actor to take off all his clothes in the audition. He assumed the other candidates reading the scene where Jack is naked also went full-frontal; he was later shocked to discover that wasn’t the case.
- PAUL GIAMATTI KNEW NOTHING ABOUT WINE. The actor admitted to faking every bit of wine knowledge, and not understanding why anybody would care about it.
Oct 17, 2024 · In a random year that saw Hollywood’s continued death march to formulaic monotony in the form of apocalyptic CGI disaster films, aborted franchise starters, and the continued evolution of the comic book film, “Sideways” is disarming in how intimate the characters are, how low the stakes are.
Jan 25, 2012 · Dramatic Premise: Miles and Jack both need to take the next step in life, and neither is ready. Protagonist Objective: Miles wants to impress his best friend Jack and treat him to a bachelor party week in Wine Country before he marries into an upper middle-class family.
