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Wine lovers won't just sip but guzzle a lot of this down, and the same effect that sun-dappled days and sex in California had on "Sideways" operates here.
Full reviewThe 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 the 'Judgment of Paris'.
For connoisseur Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman), there's no finer art than French wine, despite rumours that the new California Wine Country could soon rival it. Positive the small Napa wineries are no match for establish French vintages, Spurrier challenges the Americans to a blind tasting. But when he finds the valley full of ambitious and talented novice vintners like Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) and his son Bo (Chris Pine, Star Trek), he realises his publicity stunt may back-fire and change the wine industry forever.
LessWine lovers won't just sip but guzzle a lot of this down, and the same effect that sun-dappled days and sex in California had on "Sideways" operates here.
Full reviewTepid dregs of feel-good uplift come peppered with endless tracking shots of California scenery.
Full reviewBottle Shock is unable to figure out what kind of movie it wants to be, and flops around between madcap comedy and rousing drama. To borrow a wine-snob term of art, it lacks structure.
Full reviewBottle Shock is more than the story. It is also about people who love their work, care about it with passion and talk about it with knowledge.
Full reviewWriter-director Randall Miller has been gifted true tailor-made tension (it's based on a real events), but spoils it with miscued romantic schmaltz, cheesy '70s details and an odd comment on immigration.
Full reviewThe film is let down with some wayward plot lines, mostly involving characters that are never fully developed and as a result should never have existed.
Full reviewThe soul of the grape, that thing that elevates a wine to greatness, proves here as elusive on screen as in the bottle.
Full reviewThis intelligent, affectionate, beautifully acted movie gives crowd-pleasers a good name.
Full reviewBottle Shock is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Prime Video and Apple TV.
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