Bill Pullman and Alan Rickman carry this film along despite mediocre writing and directing, and in the end deliver light summer fun without much substance. However, if you are looking for authenticity when it comes to wine or the wine industry, look elsewhere. The movie gets most of its wine details wrong, over glamorizing the industry and underestimating its audience in the process. I still can't figure out why a production crew couldn't hire someone who knows something about wine before making a movie about the wine industry. The funny thing is, the parts of the industry that were misrepresented could have been accurately depicted without any loss of romanticism or visual effect; I suspect the crew just didn't take the time to get them right. Sideways got more right than any movie before it, and even that movie had its wine related mistakes. My rant aside, go see this movie. It is fun, light comedic fluff, and leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy with a hankering for a bottle of California wine.
Review of Bottle Shock
