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Sideways (2004)
DVD (1 discs
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Blu-ray (1 discs
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Digital ✓
Genre: Comedy
Aspect Ratio: Wide
Sound: DD 5.1
Academy Awards:
1 Win , 5 Nominations
Synopsis
Middle age has a way of making us question every path we've taken, until an unexpected connection reminds us it's not too late to hope. Alexander Payne's "Sideways," from the director of "Election" and "About Schmidt," turns Paul Giamatti into an unlikely but thoroughly endearing romantic lead. Adapted by Payne and Jim Taylor from Rex Pickett's novel, it follows Miles (Giamatti), a struggling novelist, depressed divorced schoolteacher and devoted wine snob, who takes his best friend, Jack (Thomas Haden Church), a fading TV actor, on a weeklong wine-tasting trip through California's Santa Barbara wine country as a last fling before Jack's wedding. Almost immediately, Jack's determination to sow some wild oats leads them into romances with Stephanie (Sandra Oh), a lively wine pourer, and Maya (Virginia Madsen), a thoughtful, recently divorced waitress, and Miles feels a flicker of hope he hasn't let himself feel in years. It's a modest but finely crafted film that explores the failures, disappointments and lowered expectations of midlife with gentle compassion, and Giamatti makes regret and self-loathing sympathetic, even sweet. It won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, with Church and Madsen earning nominations, and it famously sparked a boom in pinot noir sales.
Cast
Paul Giamatti
Thomas Haden Church
Virginia Madsen
Sandra Oh
Director
Alexander Payne
Awards & Nominations
- Oscar Winner: Best Actor In A Supporting Role
- Oscar Winner: Best Actress In A Supporting Role
- Oscar Winner: Best Director
- Oscar Winner: Best Picture
- Oscar Winner: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Keywords
Academy Award Winners
Art House
Comedy
Friendships
Mid-Life Crisis
Road Trips
Technical Specifications
Audio Languages
English, French, Spanish
Subtitle Languages
English, French, Spanish
Special Features
- Audio commentary
- Deleted/extended scenes
- Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
- Trailers/TV spots
- Full-length Audio Commentary by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church
- 7 Deleted Scenes
- Behind the Scenes Featurette