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Sideways is a comedy that has been nominated for a Oscar for best movie. The movie is about Jack (Thomas Haden Church) who is getting married in a week and his best man Miles (Paul Giamatti) is taking him on the trip to the vineyards in California. The trip however turns out not to be just wine tasting and some golf, but more a trip for Jack to get laid before he get married on the weekend. Not to long after they start wine tasting they both meet some ladies, Maya (Virginia Madsen) and Stephanie (Sandra Oh). After they meet they don't wate anytime getting to know each other. Unfortunately most of there relationship is built on lies, so they have problems keeping them together.

The tag line for the movie is very apt, In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves. The frist part of the tagline is the part that lost me in the movie. "in search for wine". They talk a lot about wine. A lot. I just didn't have anything to compare what they were talking about to. So i did get a little lost when they were sort of using there wine collections to flirt with each other. However some of the funniest bit of the movie did involve the tasteing of wine. I can't stress enough how funny these bits and really the whole movie is. The writing is just so perfect for each of the characters. This one is not to be missed.

Chris's Rating: 7