Bottle Shock is a pleasant enough film, telling the remarkable true story of a blind wine tasting competition in France where a Californian wine won. But it has its problems, beginning with this credit: 'Story by Ross Schwartz & Lanette Pabon and Jody Savin & Randy Miller, screenplay by Jody Savin & Randy Miller and Ross Schwarz', usually a sign of a troubled gestation and / or rewrites. This perhaps manifests itself most clearly in setting up a romantic triangle between Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor and Freddy Rodriguez (oh, of course - Six Feet Under!) and not resolving it. You might as well have not introduced it in the first place. And the 'bottle shock' - the effect that flying can have on a wine - isn't in the end relevant. I guess the 'shock' is that the Californian wine won.
With Dennis Farina, Bill Pullman (too annoyingly stubborn), Alan Rickman, Miguel Sandoval, Bradley Whitford.
Napa Valley nicely photographed by Mike Ozier.
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