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Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   3,976 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Jody Savin (screenplay) &
Randall Miller (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
19 September 2008 (Hong Kong) more
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Based on a true story of love, victory and fermentation.
Plot:
The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as "Judgment of Paris". full summary | add synopsis
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1 win more
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(66 articles)
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Wonderful Film . . . more (68 total)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Chris Pine ... Bo Barrett

Alan Rickman ... Steven Spurrier

Bill Pullman ... Jim Barrett

Rachael Taylor ... Sam

Freddy Rodríguez ... Gustavo Brambila

Dennis Farina ... Maurice

Eliza Dushku ... Joe

Miguel Sandoval ... Mr. Garcia

Bradley Whitford ... Professor Saunders

Joe Regalbuto ... Bill
Hal B. Klein ... Shenky
Kirk Baily ... Loan Officer

Phillipe Simon ... Claude Dubois-Millot
Philippe Bergeron ... Pierre Tari

Jean-Pierre Gillain ... Pierre Brejoux
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, some sexual content and a scene of drug use.
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110 min
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The Parisian street scenes were filmed in Sonoma, CA using cars provided by members of the Arcane Auto Society car club. The automobile's owners were used as extras in the street scenes that showed their cars. more
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Continuity: In the scene where Gustavo pours some of his red wine into a water glass and tells Bo, several times, "try it", the level of wine in the glass is constantly changing, from nearly full to only a sip, even before Bo drinks any of the wine. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Bo Barrett: [voice-over during a vineyard pan] It wasn't always like this. Before Paris, people didn't drink our wine. I mean, my friends did. But you could hardly consider their palates discerning...
Bo Barrett: Hell, we were farmers... sort of...
[pan to empty bottles of Montelena label and several early twenties/late teens smoking hookah]
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References What Price Glory (1926) more

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What is the "Judgment of Paris" in relation to this movie?
Is this movie based on a novel?
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33 out of 52 people found the following comment useful.
Wonderful Film . . ., 31 January 2008
9/10
Author: lreffold from NYNY

While some people might immediately try to compare this film to Sideways, that would be a big mistake. Both films might share wine as their subject matter but diverge dramatically from there.

Bottle Shock tells an unknown story of Californian wine beating French wine in a surprise blind taste test (no one was more surprised than the French).

Having the US as the Underdog, seeing the passion of the wine makers and seeing the French being served makes this an absolutely wonderful 2 hours.

Bill Pullman was superb, Alan Rickman portrayed the quintessential snobbish Britt, Rachael Taylor was stunning and Dennis Farina was "Bacon Fat with a hint of Ripe Mellon!"

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