Word: sidewaysã
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...it’s there all the same. Take his latest offbeat dramedy, Sideways??€”a perverse buddy movie in which two aging male friends (Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church) while away an hour or two competing for the title of most pathetically humiliated. By the film’s end, there is something of redemption for the pair, but there have been ample injuries along the way—and Church’s broken nose pales in comparison to the psychic wounds both suffer. Or consider Election, Payne’s 1999 film, the last third...
...sadly, the movie is ultimately worthwhile only for its fine performances. Sideways??€™ structure is painfully episodic, never allowing audiences to become fully engrossed in its obnoxious characters. Jack has a few funny moments, but more consistently comes off as annoyingly superficial. Miles is filled with self-pity—he suffers from depression without trying to hide it behind a façade of humor—and is utterly unwilling to try to improve his situation. For example, on their trip, Jack and Miles hang out with a waitress named Maya (Virginia Madsen) who?...