Bottle Shock:
8/10.
Excellent movie about the famous "Judgement of Paris" blind tasting that launched Napa Valley wines to the world. Alan Rickman does a stellar performance (as usual) as a British wine snob living in Paris, who travels to Napa expecting swill and discovers genius. Chris Pine plays hippie son to lawyer turned winemaker Bill Pullman, and Freddy Rodriguez turns in a great performance as a mexican worker at Pullman's Chateau Montelena vineyard with dreams of his own.
the next night we rented (cause it was in the previews for Bottle Shock)
Nobel Son
which had some of the same cast as Bottle Shock, namely Alan Rickman as a incredibly egotistical (even for him) chemistry prof who wins the Nobel Prize, Bill Pullman as a detective with the barely concealed hots for Rickman's wife, and Eliza Dushku who played a bartender in Bottle Shock, but here plays an eccentric (and somewhat psycho) femme fatale/artist. I think IMDB summed the movie up better than I ever could:
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Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discrete. As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge
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Seriously twisted movie. We loved it! 8/10