Sideways won the Academy Award for Best Script
and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Comedy. The film created the “Sideways Effect” that
turned the wine world on its head. After
the film's U.S. release in October 2004, Merlot sales dropped 2% while Pinot
Noir sales increased 16%.
Two men reaching middle age embark on a
week-long single-guy bonding experience road trip through California's wine
country. Miles (Paul Giamatti) is a wine enthusiast and unpublished novelist.
Jack (Thomas Haden Church) is a past-his-prime actor about to take a trip down
the aisle. Their separate encounters
with two women - Stephanie (Sandra Oh) and Maya (Virginia Madsen) - result in
sending the trip into disarray.
Rated R