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Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   2,969 votes
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Director:
Randall Miller
Writers (WGA):
Jody Savin (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
19 September 2008 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
Based on a true story of love, victory and fermentation.
Plot:
The 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 "Judgment of Paris". full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
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User Comments:
Ambitious Effort, Gone Astray more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Chris Pine ... Bo Barrett

Alan Rickman ... Steven Spurrier

Bill Pullman ... Jim Barrett

Rachael Taylor ... Sam

Freddy Rodríguez ... Gustavo Brambila

Dennis Farina ... Maurice
Eliza Dushku ... Joe

Miguel Sandoval ... Mr. Garcia

Bradley Whitford ... Professor Saunders

Joe Regalbuto ... Bill
Hal B. Klein ... Shenky
Kirk Baily ... Loan Officer

Phillipe Simon ... Claude Dubois-Millot
Philippe Bergeron ... Pierre Tari

Mary Pat Gleason ... Marge
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, some sexual content and a scene of drug use.
Runtime:
110 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French | German
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

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Trivia:
The Parisian street scenes were filmed in Sonoma, CA using cars provided by members of the Arcane Auto Society car club. The automobile's owners were used as extras in the street scenes that showed their cars. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: In one scene, a CA license plate of the form "1 ABC 123" is shown, while such license plates weren't issued until 1980. In 1976, CA license plates had the form "123 ABC" more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Bo Barrett: [voice-over during a vineyard pan] It wasn't always like this. Before Paris, people didn't drink our wine. I mean, my friends did. But you could hardly consider their palates discerning...
Bo Barrett: Hell, we were farmers... sort of...
[pan to empty bottles of Montelena label and several early twenties/late teens smoking hookah]
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs It Happened One Night (1934) more

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What is the "Judgment of Paris" in relation to this movie?
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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Ambitious Effort, Gone Astray, 28 February 2009
4/10
Author: regular8 from San Francisco

Too bad, tch tch tch. They had something great to make a film about, but instead they overdid the effort and created a bit of a mess. To wit: individually the performances are good, but the dialogue and direction want for lack of finesse. Take for example the two chicks, Sam and Joe, who together (in character) do not a faux Meg Ryan make, despite all their attempts. This is the director's fault, who should have let Ms. Ryan's type go and tried for something historically correct and original . And the cut is wrong, because there is no tension or build-up along the way, as we are led through irrelevant adolescent-like romances, annoyingly. We want a film about wine, not whine. Plus the film fails to make us believe it's 1976; the dialogue style is much too current, the music too long-forgotten. The little gimmick of run-down cars in Napa is very overdone -- one VW Bug example is enough. Such a disappointment when the fun parts are in the ending credits where they let us in on the actual people's lives. The rest of the film is, well, just a sad little mess, casting a bright light on the author's, director's, and editor's ambitions or pretensions.

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Was anybody else wanting to drink a bottle of wine after watching this? tammy-37
Gustavo, Sam, and the surfer boy idiot. WTF? Bango_Skank
Bo + Bad Wig = Very Annoying alabamamudflap
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this movie sucked fmmulholland-1
Good flick...now I want wine! vincentvega94
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