*ing: Chris Pine, Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman, Freddy Rodriguez, Racheal Taylor
Genre: Drama
Set in the year 1976, this movie talks about the turning point whereby Napa Valley in US came to be recognized as a producer of quality wine beating the dominant French at their wine making game. The movie is based on actual events although much has been debated post the release of the movie. Anyway, irrespective of the controversy 'Bottle Shock' comes up a decent movie that is worth a watch. The film when released did not get a warm reception from the critics and was trashed by a vast majority of them and to be honest 'Bottle Shock' does not come out as a great movie to watch. However, the music and the breathtaking shots of Napa Valley do make it look very beautiful and pleasing to the audience.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914797/
Rottentomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bottle_shock/
Genre: Drama
Set in the year 1976, this movie talks about the turning point whereby Napa Valley in US came to be recognized as a producer of quality wine beating the dominant French at their wine making game. The movie is based on actual events although much has been debated post the release of the movie. Anyway, irrespective of the controversy 'Bottle Shock' comes up a decent movie that is worth a watch. The film when released did not get a warm reception from the critics and was trashed by a vast majority of them and to be honest 'Bottle Shock' does not come out as a great movie to watch. However, the music and the breathtaking shots of Napa Valley do make it look very beautiful and pleasing to the audience.
Here is what the movie all about ... Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) a British wine expert and founder of 'Academie Du Vin' decides it's time the world Parisians are introduced to quality wines from across the globe. Mind you this is 1976 and France's Bordeaux and Burgundy were considered the best wine producing areas in the world and wine's from those regions used to rule the Number One spot. Steven Spurrier travels to Napa Valley, USA in search of quality wines and in a chance encounter meets Jim Barrett (Bill Pullman) of Chateau Montelena, Bill is a self styled maverick who wants to produce the best Chardonnay in the world. When Steven propses Jim to showcase his wine in 'Paris Wine Tasting of 1976', Jim refuses. Jim thinks the French hold such competitions to make a mockery of US and other wine makers. However, Jim's son Bo (Chris Pine) smuggles couple of bottles from his fathers winery for the wine tasting and much to everyone's surprise wines from Jim's vineyard and other vineyards of California top the Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon wines beating the best French wines thus putting Californian wines in global spotlight.
Bottom-line: Co-writer and Director Randall Miller has done a decent job. Music by Mark Adler is noteworthy, the cinematography is breathtaking to say the least. Overall 'Bottle Shock' is a decent enough affair.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914797/
Rottentomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bottle_shock/
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