Sideways--Movie Review

Sideways is the story of Miles, a talented and alcoholic writer who has a hard time getting published. In a week he'll be the best man for his actor friend Jack. Miles and Jack go to the wine country in California so that Jack can have his last fling before tying the knot. Sideways is a character driven story, showing people having a mid life crisis. Miles is the star of the movie. It is his story that we are being told at the same time that we watch Jack find a cute waitress for his male adventure. I found it a very moving and funny movie. Miles is a good writer, perhaps a very good writer, who has his novels continually rejected for one reason or another. He is a divorced schoolteacher who's still not over the loss of his wife. When he meets Maya, a waitress friend of Jack's new conquest, he has to make some sort of a decision.
Sideways takes the movie viewer into the hearts and minds of these two middle aged men and it does it with great acting, writing and compassion.