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Actor: Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Dennis Farina, Freddy RodriguezBrand: Fox
Cinematographer: Michael Ozier
Composer: Mark Adler
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-03
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Bottle Shock
DVD Review: A Hairy GEM
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this movie almost by accident and I must say that it was a wonderful find. I'd classify it as a light comedic drama.
The story centers on two fronts:
The first is the story of a small struggling vinyard in California with Bill Pullman at its head raising a 26year old teenage son, Chris Pine, who is still living like its Woodstock 1969, only its the 1970s. Bill has a small group of mexican workers, played very well by Freddy Rodriguez and Miguel Sandoval and a bright up and coming intern, Rachael Taylor, who comes to work at the vineyard. Pullman is in debt and had left the city to follow his passion and build great wines in California. We imagine that all the wine growers of the region have similar stories...just a bunch of ex hippies with ties to academia working the land planting grapes and hoping that one day their wines will be recognized for their greatness.
The second - on the other side of the ocean in Paris, the wonderful actor Alan Rickman plays a British Expat who runs an academy for Wines...only all his wines are French. His partner, another wonderfully talented actor David Farina, tells Rickman that his problem is that the Academy only deals with French wines and that the game is about the world. So Alan Rickman sets up a blind wine tasting competition between American and French Wines for the American bicentennial (well FRENCH wines vs american wines)...with the French Flag three times bigger than the American flag on the pamphlet. Rickman comes to America and tastes wines from the Californian wines and picks the best ones to take back to France.
You know what happens, in 1976 on the American bicentennial, in a blind taste test, American wines took the #1 spot in both White and Red categories over French wines (the French picked American wines as the best...by mistake I'm sure). This put California on the map and those poor hippies, well they became snobs too and bought ferraris.
Overall, the story told here is great. Its what I would call "relaxful"....you know what's going to happen, there's some comedy, a light love triangle (very light), some pretty scenery, some tremendous acting, lots of truly great actors, and a great story of how the underdog hippie grew up to drive the 7 Series BMW...go figure, some things never change.
So why hairy....well, this was the 1970s and the weather in California was hot and I have to say that throughout the entire movie (with the exception of Bill Pullman), everyone in the movie appeared to have six days growth of hair....everyone seemed hairy, in the true classical hippie tradition (many of my friends are hippies or sons/daughters of hippies so no disrespect meant there) just that this movie is firmly set in the 1970s and they replicated everything including the clothing, dressing styles, and yes the HAIR. Hilarious.
Its a great movie and a timeless story of us taking our snobby French neighbors down a peg or two. Who doesn't enjoy that. All in good fun fellow French friends, the French do make great wines and Lafite is still my favorite albeit its hard to afford these days.
Description of Bottle Shock
Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-FEB-2009
Media Type: DVD
"Bottle shock" describes what can happen to wine as it travels from place to place. Set in 1976, Randall Miller's widescreen docudrama concerns the real-life showdown between California's wineries and their French counterparts. Napa Valley's Jim Barrett (Lost Highway's Bill Pullman) has been plugging away for years with minimal success. A former attorney, Barrett runs Chateau Montelena with his wayward son, Bo (Chris Pine, the Star Trek prequel's Captain Kirk), who would rather do anything than assist his stern father. Bo's co-workers include Gustavo (Six Feet Under's Freddy Rodríguez) and Sam (Transformers' Rachael Taylor), who long to produce the perfect chardonnay. Naturally, the young men compete for the favors of the beautiful blonde (the movie's least interesting angle). Across the Atlantic, Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) struggles to keep his Parisian wine shop going (cheapskate American Dennis Farina is his only regular customer). Then Spurrier conceives a contest to attract customers; surely, his beloved French growers will put those upstart Yanks in their place. He flies to Napa to look around, and persuades the Barretts to compete. Miller and his wife, screenwriter Jody Savin, previously worked with Pullman and Rickman on Nobel Son, but decided to release Bottle Shock first. Though comparisons to Sideways will be inevitable, the filmmakers take more of a historical look at California wine country. The "Judgment of Paris" changed the face of the business forever, and they've found a lively way to recount the tale. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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