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Bottle Shock
Brought together by a curious twist of fate on a dusty California road, a wandering vintner and a struggling winemaker find both their lives, and their careers, forever transformed at a blind Parisian wine tasting that introduced the world to the extraordinary wines of Napa Valley.

















9 August 1959, Montréal, Québec, Canada


8 December 1952, Troy, Michigan, USA


8 February 1945, Brooklyn, New York, USA

9 September 1952, New York City, New York, USA




11 July 1984, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia



7 October 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

24 May 1971, Paris,

30 December 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

17 January 1975, Chicago, Illinois, USA

16 November 1951, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

24 August 1949, New York City, New York, USA


16 February 1951, Colorado, USA


29 August 1985, Santa Rosa, California, USA


September 23, 1988 in Stockton, California, USA

26 October 1967, San Francisco, California, USA



April 03, 2009
It's not in the same league as Sideways but it has a fragrant sense of the beauty of wine and winemaking, not just the drinking.
March 27, 2009
Predictable in its moves, it's engaging enough, though it has nowhere near the characterisation, say, of Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hayden Church in Sideways.
August 14, 2009
It doesn't exactly come off as boxed wine to the top-shelf sensibilities of Sideways, but there's not enough story or heart for it to capture the same lightning in a bottle.
March 28, 2009
Bottle Shock is one of those cockle-warming, feel-good underdog films in the tradition of Strictly Ballroom. Only in this case Scott and Fran are, respectively, a Chardonnay with tangerine undertones, and a Cabernet Merlot blend.
August 15, 2008
Unfortunately, Miller can't decide whether he's doing a relationship movie or one about the intrigue of world-class winemaking. Mingling the two left me with a somewhat sour aftertaste.
April 10, 2009
As a rather strenuous attempt at a feel-good movie, Bottle Shock falls a long way short of the mark.
August 22, 2008
The people who made Bottle Shock obviously love their wine. They're not that crazy about the French. And they are firm believers in the screenwriting rule of leaving no underdog-formula cliché unused.
August 14, 2008
Its heart is so in the right place and its tableau so appealing that it's easy to come away from this sweet, scrappy film with a nice little buzz.
December 24, 2009
With much loving, longing gazing at the Napa Valley landscape, it's awfully good-looking, if you can discount the high-waisted bell-bottoms and the homely yellow AMC Gremlin that wheezes into scenes every once in a while.
August 15, 2008
Bottle Shock is... utterly charming.
August 22, 2008
Rickman adds a welcome astringency.