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Bottle Shock (2008)

Posted in 2008

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The story of the early days of California wine making featuring the now infamous, blind Paris wine tasting of 1976 that has come to be known as “Judgment of Paris”.
Bottle Shock is a Lifetime movie that thinks it’s much more. Except that even Lifetime movies, while clichéd, try harder to please the audience. The movie is full of one-dimensional characters, such as Joe, the young, female, free-spirited “intern” to the wine-making business who has a steadfastly cheerful demeanor whether she’s breaking hearts, hanging out at the local bar, or dishing about her favorite subject, wine. You see in the 1970s, in California, hippies were blonde and they were happy, especially when they were making wine. Everything in this movie is a cliché, from the 1970s clothing to the soundtrack, which dictates the emotion we’re supposed to feel in each scene, in case the spare dialog and the one-dimensional acting isn’t enough to clue us in. One of the more laughable aspects of the movie is the set. The lovingly photographed wine country of Napa Valley suddenly becomes the wine fields in France– just add a couple of cows, an old man in a beret, and accordion to the soundtrack. The producers obviously had to skimp somewhere in order to afford to pay Dennis Farina, Bill Pullman, and Alan Rickman, each of whom must have thought they were signing onto a better movie. Morale of the story: Many Lifetime movies are also based on true stories, but at least you know what you’re getting when you start to watch one.