26 February 2009

Bottle Shock

Alas the characters are empty caricatures of what were surely real people, and some of the filmmaking doesn't quite reach the level of sophistication it seeks, but I thoroughly enjoyed this underdog fairytale. Give me a "true story" set in the Bay Area in the 70's and you've already got my affections. Who needs characters? If we wanted a story about wine with characters we'd watch sideways again.