Title: Great Fun
Review: I'm a wine geek and loved the book "The Judgement of Paris". This movie is not the book. It's a wholesale fabrication of the story with a really annoying love story with a superflous wet t-shirt scene. Not crediting the actual winemakers is a huge gaffe (Mike Grgich actually made the white wine, and the grapes were bought in from Sonoma, not grown in Napa.) And the big tasting being held in a wreck of a building? No freaking way in heck!!!That said, I will watch Alan Rickman in anything. Watching him sniff, swirl, sip and spit is pure pleasure. Bill Pullman is great in this, if a little one note (it's the writing, not him), and Freddy Garcia is very good. The cinematography is wonderful, particularly when they swoop over Napa. I just fast forward through the annoying parts with the girl, and focus on the other actors. It's a frivolous movie, perfect for a night in with a bottle of wine.
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