Synopsis
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
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Cast
- Paul GiamattiMiles
- Thomas Haden ChurchJack
- Virginia MadsenMaya
- Sandra OhStephanie
- Marylouise BurkeMiles's Mother
- Jessica HechtVictoria
- Missy DotyCammi
- M.C. GaineyCammi's Husband
- Alysia ReinerChristine Erganian
- Shake TukhmanyanMrs. Erganian
Recommendations
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The Hollywood Reporter
Hysterically funny yet melancholy comedy. - 100
Newsweek
In Sideways, Payne has created four of the most lived-in, indelible characters in recent American movies. This deliciously bittersweet movie makes magic out of the quotidian. - 100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Sweetest, funniest, most humane movie I've seen all year. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
It's an intoxicating feeling when a movie excites and enlivens us like this -- and there's a particular giddiness to be had in thinking about what movies can (but don't often) do for one's soul after imbibing such a fine vintage. - 90
Variety
A beautifully observed, small-scale study of personal foibles, romantic uncertainty and two sides of the sadly predictable male animal. - 90
The New Yorker
In this role Giamatti gives his bravest, most generously humane performance yet. Women may be repelled, but men will know this man, because, at one time or another, many of us have been this man. - 90
The New York Times
Like the film itself, the performance (Giamatti's) is deeply controlled, played with restraint and with microscopic attention to detail. - 90
The A.V. Club
Good comedies are rare, but rarer still are those that conflate laughter with intimacy.
