Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Jim Taylor and Payne. A film adaptation of Rex Pickett 's 2004 novel, Sideways follows two men in their forties, Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti), a depressed teacher and unsuccessful writer, and Jack Cole (Thomas Haden Church), a past-his-prime actor, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara County ...
Though famous for popularizing pinot noir across the planet, the film Sideways was actually first inspired by golf. Rex Pickett, who wrote the novel that became the Oscar-winning film, was down on his ...
When director Alexander Payne set out to create the 2004 film “Sideways,” based on the then-unpublished novel by Rex Pickett about two friends’ wine-fueled visit to the Santa Ynez Valley, his ...
Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall will join novelist/librettist Rex Pickett and composer Anthony Leigh Adams in collaborating on the development of Sideways: The Musical.
Author Rex Pickett is coming to Ram’s Gate Winery in Sonoma this month in celebration of the release of a collector’s editor of his novel “Sideways.” The book led to the runaway hit movie that ...
Blackstone Publishing is extending their working partnership with best-selling Sideways series author Rex Pickett. The long-admired first novel Sideways, that begat the continuing series, was adapted ...
Sideways novelist Rex Pickett has formed a joint venture with EFG-Renascence Productions to develop a stage musical based on the book adapted by Alexander Payne into the hit 2004 film. The project was ...
San Diego Union-Tribune: Another taste of ‘Sideways,’ as UCSD grad Rex Pickett’s novel-turned-movie is now in development as a musical