Our Favorite Movies
Cuddle up with with a bottle of wine and some smelly cheese and enjoy an evening of the movies.
Here's our favorite movies to date.
A Good Year (2006)
Cast:
Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard , Archie Panjabi, Albert Finney
Our Review: Predictable love and ending allow us you
enjoy the exteme wine chateau and setting.
Plot Synopsis: After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London
banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate,
so Max inherits
a château
and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning
maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess,
which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling
the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready
to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's
Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans.
Sideways (2004)
Cast:
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen,
Sandra Oh
Our Review: Lots and lots of
educational facts embedded in a moving story filled with a great love
of wine and wine making.
Plot Synopsis: Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment,
embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to
take a trip down the aisle.
Movie Trailer
French Kiss (1995)
Cast:
Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Timothy Hutton, Renée Humphrey
Our Review: Entertaining from start
to finish, a little education, a lot of romance and some wonderful scenery.
Plot Synopsis: A woman flies to
France to confront her straying fiancé, but gets into trouble when the
charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling
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The Earth is Mine (1959)
Cast:
Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire
Our Review: Filmed at what is now Rubicon
Estate, with workers appearing as extras, this film is even more winecentric
than "Sideways," and just as accurate.
Plot Synopsis: In 1931, Elizabeth
Rambeau comes from England to live in California with her aunt and uncle
of a winemaking
dynasty, who are still wealthy despite 12 years of Prohibition. Object:
marriage to the heir of another vineyard, to further consolidate holdings
in the Valley.