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    A film adaptation of Rex Pickett's 2004 novel, Sideways follows two men in their forties, Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti), a depressed teacher and unsuccessful writer, and Jack Cole (Thomas Haden Church), a past-his-prime actor, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara County wine country to celebrate Jack's upcoming wedding.

  2. 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.

  3. Struggling writer and wine enthusiast Miles (Paul Giamatti) takes his engaged friend, Jack (Thomas Haden Church), on a trip to wine country for a last single-guy bonding experience. While Miles ...

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    • 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.
  4. Oct 22, 2004 · The Academy Award-winning film was the movie that had everyone talking about pinot noir and second chances. The story of two longtime friends — Miles and Jack (Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church) — and the women they meet (Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh) on a tour of California’s wine country is still refreshingly human, awkward and ...

  5. Mar 19, 2024 · Director Alexander Payne on ‘Sideways,’ 20 Years Later. By Tod Brilliant. Image Courtesy of FOX Searchlight Via Maximum Film / Alamy Stock Photo. Paul Giamatti isn’t nearly as amused as fans think he will be when they send him over bottles of Merlot in restaurants.

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  7. Apr 10, 2019 · Running from commitments and failures, two college buddies romp through California, sampling the local wine—and women—in Sideways.

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