Sideways

“Paul Giamatti’s Miles, a woebegone eighth-grade English teacher and would-be novelist, is the film’s unlikely Pinot aficionado who sets off from L.A. on a wine-tasting trip with Jack, an old college friend and washed-up actor, the week before Jack’s wedding...In Sideways, wine is much more than wine. It’s a metaphor for the spirits that bring us to a reckoning with ourselves.”