Sideways
Saying goodbye to bachelorhood, Miles Raymond, a miserable teacher, takes his best friend, Jack, a former actor, who is about to be married, in a journey to the wine country, where they confront their failure in achieving anything in life and relationships.
14 January 1953, Stanislaus County, California, USA
22 August 1984, San Diego, California, USA
17 April 1982, Concord, California, USA
6 December 1950, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 January 1948, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
3 October 1984, Santa Cruz, California, USA
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
20 July 1971, Nepean, Ontario, Canada
22 October 1973, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
9 August 1972, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
20 January 1941, Steelton, Pennsylvania, USA
25 January 1965
17 June 1960, Yolo, California, USA
11 September 1979, Ventura County, California, USA
18 March 1988, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
21 February 1968, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
21 July 1970, Gainesville, Florida, USA
11 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 03, 2010
Giamatti handily raises what could've been a pedestrian road trip romance into the stratosphere of a world-class character study
April 29, 2009
A very memorable slice of life.
October 18, 2008
This wonderfully satisfying study in human nature is funny and sad and profoundly entertaining from start to finish.
December 28, 2010
Excellent but explicit movie is not for kids.
November 19, 2004
Payne has made a movie for the same sorts of people, one with body and 'nose' and character that movie lovers will savor long after the credits have rolled.
May 24, 2013
Payne's most enjoyable movie since Election
November 12, 2004
This isn't the sort of road comedy we're used to seeing. Its humor is more likely to provoke smiles and light chuckles than guffaws.
November 01, 2007
Sideways stays resolutely life-size. And that, in this age of hype and hyperventilation, may be the most radical thing about it.
October 01, 2010
"Sideways" is about wine aged to perfection sipped by men who've aged to mediocrity - softer, hornier versions of Walter and The Dude. But Miles's brutal honesty is its soul. He's annoyingly, depressingly out there, but never fraudulent.
May 21, 2005
Intelligent, funny and moving.
November 12, 2004
Much like Altman, Hal Ashby and Billy Wilder -- three filmmakers whose movies are celebrated for their naturalism, their humanism and their wicked, often merciless satire -- Payne makes films about ordinary people with their rumples and flaws left intact,
February 13, 2012
Payne does know how to capture two kinds of male menopause. But I can't say he ever surprised me.
