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Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   4,016 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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Bottle Shock: The Sideways of 2008 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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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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Bill Pullman lost his sense of smell after a head injury and two-day coma. more
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Anachronisms: In the "fixed" tasting at the bar, bar codes can be seen on the bottle labels. Bar codes were not printed on wine bottles in 1976, of course. 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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21 out of 33 people found the following comment useful.
Bottle Shock: The Sideways of 2008, 18 July 2008
9/10
Author: delroy2020

I recently got a chance to see Bottle Shock and I have to say I thought it was great. It's really charming and interesting in a very different way from Sideways, although because of all the beautiful Napa Valley photography, it still reminded me of it. It also has great characters and hilarious moments the way that film does. I highly recommend this film.

Based on a true story, it chronicles how California wine makers became serious contenders in the world competition of wine-- an honor previously assumed to be rewarded always to the French. It centers around a town of quirky up and coming wine makers, each with their own challenges to face. It's got a great cast, including Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Freddie Rodriguez, Rachel Taylor, Eliza Dushku and the hilarious Alan Rickman. Rickman plays an English wine seller in France who's desperate to find the best wines to sell in his store. He travels to California to see if the rumors are true about California's wines. His performance alone is worth seeing this.

It's a charming, heartwarming movie that I think will do very well when it opens 8/8. Check it out, you wont be disappointed.

9/10

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