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Release Date: 2004

Cast: Missy Doty, Paul Giamatti, M. C. Gainey, Patrick Gallagher, Jessica Hecht, Peter Dennis, Virginia Madsen, Marylouise Burke, Shaun Duke, Robert Covarrubias, Alysia Reiner, Sandra Oh ...MORE

Cast: Missy Doty, Paul Giamatti, M. C. Gainey, Patrick Gallagher, Jessica Hecht, Peter Dennis, Virginia Madsen, Marylouise Burke, Shaun Duke, Robert Covarrubias, Alysia Reiner, Sandra Oh, Shake Tukhmanyan, Lee Brooks, Stephanie Faracy, Thomas Haden Church ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Road Movie, Romantic Comedy, Drama Film, Comedy-Drama, Comedy, Buddy Film, Romance Film

Sideways is a 2004 comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's 2004 novel of the same name, Sideways follows two forty-something year old men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara County Wine Country. Payne and Taylor won multiple awards for their screenplay. Giamatti and Church, as well as actresses Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh, playing local women who become romantically involved with the men, all received accolades for their performances. Sideways won the... MORE

Sideways is a 2004 comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. Adapted from Rex Pickett's 2004 novel of the same name, Sideways follows two forty-something year old men, portrayed by Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara County Wine Country. Payne and Taylor won multiple awards for their screenplay. Giamatti and Church, as well as actresses Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh, playing local women who become romantically involved with the men, all received accolades for their performances. Sideways won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for four other awards. Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) is an unsuccessful writer, a wine-aficionado, and a depressed middle school English teacher living in San Diego, who takes his soon-to-be-married actor friend and college roommate, Jack Cole (Thomas Haden Church), on a road trip through Santa Ynez Valley wine country. Miles wants to relax and live well. However, Jack wants one last sexual fling. In the wine country, the men encounter Maya (Virginia Madsen), a waitress at Miles's favorite restaurant, The Hitching Post, and her friend, LESS