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".
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Randall Miller
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Title: Bottle Shock (2008)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Chris Pine | ... | Bo Barrett | |
| Hal B. Klein | ... | Shenky | |
| Alan Rickman | ... | Steven Spurrier | |
| Jean-Michel Richaud | ... | Maitre d' | |
| Dennis Farina | ... | Maurice Cantavale | |
| Bill Pullman | ... | Jim Barrett | |
| Kirk Baily | ... | Loan Officer | |
| Freddy Rodríguez | ... | Gustavo Brambila (as Freddy Rodriguez) | |
| Philippe Bergeron | ... | Pierre Tari | |
| Rachael Taylor | ... | Sam Fulton | |
| Louis Giambalvo | ... | George Taber | |
| Greg Collins | ... | Trucker | |
| Luis Saguar | ... | Man #1 (as Louis Saguar) | |
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James Hiser | ... | Man #2 |
| Geoff Callan | ... | Man #3 | |
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In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's strain in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his foreman Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and free spirit, mutually attracted to both Gustavo and Bo. As Spurrier organizes the "Judgment of Paris," Jim doesn't want to participate while Bo knows it's their only chance. Barrett's chardonnay has buttery notes and a Smithsonian finish. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Based on a true story of love, victory and fermentation.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, some sexual content and a scene of drug use | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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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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Written by Stick McGhee (as Granville McGhee) & J. Mayo Williams
Performed by Stick McGhee
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation
By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
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The white car driving toward camera and out of frame immediately after the "Judgement of Paris" is a Jensen Interceptor. See more »Goofs
While Bo and Sam are kissing before Bo leaves for France, she's holding his face while two wisps of hair droop down on his right side. When the camera films to show her face, all his hair is pushed back by her hands. See 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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Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-DeeWritten by Stick McGhee (as Granville McGhee) & J. Mayo Williams
Performed by Stick McGhee
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corporation
By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
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Country:
USARelease Date:
5 September 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Bottle Shock See more »Edit
Box Office
Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$278,075, 10 August 2008Gross USA:
$4,078,607Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$4,628,553Company Credits
Production Co:
Shocking Bottle, Unclaimed Freight Productions, Intellectual Properties Worldwide (I) See more »
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Fun movie, and funnier than I thought it would be. Rickman was fantastic. I've never been a huge fan of his, but I really saw his talent and sense of humor come thru in this movie. I think even he might laugh during the movie.
I must say, when heard about this movie at Sundance, I thought it was going to give a documentary treatment to the wine competition in Paris. I thought it would something I'd sip red wine to, with a fellow wine geek. Instead this movie was VERY entertaining. It put me more in the mood to drink a good bottle of white with my wife, and...well, you get the idea.
The movie is not without some quirks, but I think a non-critic will "like it a lot," as Freddy Rodriguez says about his wine. It is a feast for the eyes. I can't wait to see it on Blu-Ray!