2004 · comedy · romance · drama
Sideways
Directed by Alexander Payne2h 7m2004
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Our read: Sideways (2004) reads as a warm, measured, grounded comedy · romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- intimate
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