22 Feb 2006
Director: Alexander Payne
USA
2004
123 min
Miles, a failed writer, arranges a wine tasting trip in California’s wine country to celebrate his friend Jack’s forthcoming Wedding. The comically mismatched pair share little other than their fading youth and failed potential. Miles is watching his writing career slide away and Jack is having second thoughts about his marriage. Soon they are drowning in wine and women and the trip is going decidedly sideways into midlife crises. A deliciously comic coming-of-age movie concerning the middleaged and a celebration of wine. An Oscar winner from the director of ‘About Schmidt’.