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Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Writer-director Alexander Payne’s (“Citizen Ruth”/“Election”/“About
Schmidt”) very entertaining but thinly drawn romantic/comedy, buddy/road
movie, surprises (perhaps like a familiar wine that unexpectedly proves
to have a rich fruity taste) that it has more substance than what at first
appears to be only a frivolous tale. Sideways turns out to be a beautifully
realized but, nevertheless, all too familiar story about a pained man,
Miles (Paul Giamatti), not yet recovered from his divorce of two years
ago and who might be ready to pack things in as hopeless as he’s still
carrying the torch for his remarried ex-wife. Jim Taylor, the longtime
writer partner of Payne’s, again collaborates on the script that is based
on the novel by Rex Pickett.

Miles is a depressive, shlumpy, aspiring unpublished writer, who
supports himself by teaching English in a middle-school. Jack (Thomas Haden
Church) is a cheerful, hunky, superficial, washed-up former TV actor and
longtime friend of Miles’ since they were college roomies. They hook up
in their hometown of San Diego and go on a weeklong wine tasting, golfing,
and soulful heart-to-heart companionship trip through central California
wine country (around the environs of Santa Barbara) where wine connoisseur
Miles is in all his glory as he revisits his familiar haunts and samples
some pinot noir. The excuse for the trip is for the old friends to celebrate
together that Jack is getting married for the first time in a week. 

At one fine restaurant, The Hitching Post, Miles meets again the
attractive blonde Maya (Virginia Madsen), a waitress he remotely knows
who shares Miles’ love for wine. But Miles, at first, is too unsure of
himself to follow up the interest Maya shows him, despite Jack’s urgings.
Meanwhile Jack makes it clear that his mission on this trip is to get both
himself and his old pal laid, as the approaching middle aged womanizer
still can’t believe he’s soon-to-be-married and will have to give up his
swinger lifestyle. 

Jack hooks up with the free-spirited motorcycle riding Stephanie
(Sandra Oh, the director’s wife), a friend of Maya’s, who plays a feisty
single mom wine-pouring hostess for the tourists at the local vineyard.
They double-date, and Jack and Stephanie are doing the love thing as fast
as it takes to pour a glass of vintage wine. But Jack never bothers to
reveal his upcoming marriage, instead he professes his true love for her
and plans to relocate to start a wine business with her. Miles in the meantime
goes along with Jack’s lie that his novel has been published and eventually,
in due time, succeeds in scoring Maya by getting her to read his sensitive
manuscript. The film takes off in grand style when their deceits become
known. 

The great acting is the thing here, as the foursome all play their
roles with a controlled eye for getting to their character and keeping
with their characterizations. I was especially pleased with the nuanced
performances of Madsen and Church, and I was not disappointed by the usual
quality performances I have come to expect from both Oh and acclaimed character
actor Giamatti. It results in an honestly told relationship film, in a
genre that is hard for filmmakers to ever get right. Payne to his credit
leaves no bitter aftertastes with this delicious offering and has come
up with a quality film that deserves Oscar attention. Just by making everything
real and keeping a wry observing eye out for comparing the way wine ages
gracefully with the way the featured men are aging, makes this one of Payne’s
better efforts and a welcome contribution to fighting back against the
dumbing down of such familiar comedy fodder by so many mediocre studio
directors who are only after the next blockbuster. As the snobby wine-lover
Madsen character says about sampling a wine she favors “it tastes so fucking
good,” one can easily transfer that compliment to the movie.

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A routine mystery story with a sort of misleading title. The lady
confesses to lying about the alibi she provided for the killer. This low
budget film is watchable, but do not expect anything more.

Larry Craig (Hugh Beaumont) is going to marry Vicki McGuire (Mary
Beth Hughes), but surprisingly after a seven year absence Larry’s wife
Norma (Barbara Slater) returns and confronts Vicki by arrogantly telling
her that she will never give Larry a divorce, even though she wants nothing
more to do with her rotten husband.

Larry while drunk goes to a nightclub that Lucky Brandon (Edmund
MacDonald) owns. Lucky gets rid of him, but he returns. The club’s singer,
Lucille Compton, thinks he’s too drunk to see Vicki in her place, so she
lets him sleep it off in her dressing room.

In the wee hours of the night, Larry is awakened by Lucille and is
now sober. He goes with Vicki to see Norma and ask for a divorce. When
they show up at her house, Captain Brown (Vogan) greets them with the news
that Norma was strangled to death with a thin wire. He suspects the couple
because they had a motive for killing her and proceeds to check their alibis.
He finds three of four people at the club back Larry’s alibi, only Lucky
denies Larry was with him and denies that Larry saw him sneaking back in
to his club late at night.

Warning: spoilers to follow in the next two
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Under police questioning it turns out that Lucky was seeing Norma
and that she lent him $10,000 to open the club. Vicki suspects Lucky, and
goes on her own initiative to get a job in the club to find out why he
lied about seeing Larry that evening. She gives the club photographer (Andrews)
$50 to take her place for a few days; and, she finds out from Lucille that
she was at one time seeing Lucky and that Lucky had gone to Norma’s house.
When the singer tries to shoot Lucky because he won’t see her anymore,
he takes the gun away from her and asks Vicki to take her home. But before
Lucille goes home she writes a note to Captain Brown, telling him she lied
about the alibi she provided for Larry. She does this to cover up that
out of jealousy, she strangled Norma.

In her apartment, Larry sneaks in and strangles Lucille with a thin
wire because he says she can’t keep quiet. Vicki goes to Lucille’s dressing
room and gets a note that she wrote addressed to Captain Brown and without
reading it takes it to Larry. Fortunately, Captain Brown, who is taking
Lucky down to the station, also comes to Larry’s place just as he was going
to strangle Vicki. Larry confesses that he killed Lucille. Captain Brown
plugs Larry when he tries to escape. It turns out that Lucky was in Norma’s
place to pay back the loan and rekindle their romance, he therefore explains
that the reason he lied was that if he gave Larry an alibi the cops would
let Larry off the hook. Lucille apparently misunderstood Lucky, as much
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Respectable middle-aged couple Loretta (Andrea Ferreol) and Henri (Jacques Boudet) tell the director of an orphanage they’ve been overwhelmed with work at their bistro, Le Ventre Plein (The Full Belly), since their daughter went to stay with a sick aunt. Although they live in an insular, all-white community, the pair are unnervingly eager to offer a waitressing job to a young black woman. Sweet, trusting Diamantine (Meiji U Tum’si) fills the bill. She’s about to turn 18 and has lived her entire life at the orphanage.

Solicitous to the point of smarminess, Loretta and Henri tell their live-in employee that she’s “one of the family,” yet seem to go out of their way to encourage the townsfolk to disapprove of the accommodating young lady. One evening, they ask if Diamantine would be willing to repay their kindness by pretending to be pregnant. The girl goes along with what she’s been assured is a joke, wearing increasing layers of padding under her clothes.

Loretta can barely contain her joy when Jan (versatile Dutch musician Herman van Veen), a Flemish friend who spent seven years in prison on a smuggling charge, comes to stay. Jan keeps asking about their daughter but is told she’s in Toulouse tending to a sick aunt. Some 45 minutes in, the reasons for the pregnancy charade are revealed — and they’re mighty twisted, in a quasi-upstanding sort of way.

Scripter-helmer Van Peebles sustains an agreeably conspiratorial mood and has a field day chipping away at the allegedly pious, self-described “pillars of the community.” Ferreol simply couldn’t be better, and U Tum’si is grounded and delightful as goodness incarnate. By setting his tale in a cultural backwater back in the mid-’60s, when unwed mothers were automatic pariahs, Van Peebles draws a subtle map of how intolerance can be either fanned or stamped out.

Digital lensing is very good, as is the film transfer. A few wacky flashbacks — including one in which an elderly woman permanently lends a hand to her jealous husband — are particularly memorable for their narrative chutzpah. Helmer also composed the score, which ranges across several styles but favors jazzy, effusive piano music.

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In this steam still image released by Lionsgate Films, Virginia Madsen is shown in "The Haunting in Connecticut."

Despite the many ghost stories brought to the big screen, many of them titled The Haunting this or that, The Haunting In Connecticut rises above the ectoplasmic ooze. Another based-in-fact supernatural tale, it stacks ghostly troubles upon a family that’s already reeling from worldly problems.

Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, starring as the Campbell family matriarch, has dealt with evil spirits before, especially in 1992’s Candyman and 1999’s The Haunting. She battles especially angry evil in The Haunting In Connecticut.

It’s 1987 in upstate Connecticut. Madsen’s Sara Campbell is the mother of a teen son who’s receiving devastating cancer treatment. Because Sara hates seeing Matt suffer through long commutes to the hospital, she looks for a house to rent near the hospital.

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Sara finds a large Victorian home on a spacious lot. Except for its odd history, it’s perfect. As the trusty real estate agent says, the old place simply needs a little love and care to bring it back to life.

Sara signs the lease and keeps its secret to herself.

The Campbell family includes Sara’s husband, Peter (Martin Donovan), the couple’s two sons and two nieces. Simultaneously renting a house near the hospital and paying the mortgage back home is a financial burden. Peter also has a drinking problem and a construction company that’s struggling to stay afloat.

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Already knocking on death’s door, Matt (Kyle Gallner) is the focal point of the supernatural activities. He picks the house’s basement as his bedroom, or, more likely, the basement picks him.

The basement is even creepier than the rest of the home’s faded, dim interiors. And there’s something cold and industrial about it. A locked room enhances the space’s sinister tone. It’s a wonder that at least one person in every audience watching The Haunting doesn’t yell out the obvious: Don’t go in the basement!

Strange things don’t wait for the night. They happen in daylight, just as Matt begins an experimental radiation treatment. In another bit of good writing, Matt thinks he’s losing his mind but dares not say so because admitting it would get him dropped from the medical trial that may save his life.

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When did I in front common knowledge to it? Fountain-head, it wasn’t in 1942, I can know scold you that. But it wasn’t all that long afterwards. I recall it was a rainy Saturday afternoon in the mid fifties; I was a kid, bored, and looking in regard to something to watch on one of our three television channels. I turned on “Casablanca” all round ten minutes into the picture. I’d not at all seen it before–an old, fuzzy, swarthy-and-white movie interrupted by a multitude of commercials. But I stuck with it since on the other side of two hours, fascinated by something that would normally have hand me cold–a romance! I had no idea how popular the film was, delightful Academy Awards in behalf of Best Picture, Best Manager, and Best Screenplay, nor how much more all the rage it would adorn come of on TV, eventually attaining the prominence of most-often broadcast film in curriculum vitae. I only knew I loved it.

So, what’s the attraction? Why does “Casablanca” unswervingly show up in the public’s and critics’ lists of top-ten films of all old hat? I suspect it’s the characters and air more than anything else. Infallible, it’s a riveting love story, too, but without the colorful cast and exotic locality, it would be just another potboiler, which, as I said, is about what its producers initially expected of it. But the carbon copy took on a life of its own as filming and rewrites continued, eventually emerging as the classic every movie buff knows by heart.

Based on the unproduced put cooperate “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, the film moves effortlessly from scene to scene at the mercy of the guidance of veteran maestro Michael Curtiz. The principal character is, of course, Richard Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart. He’s a brutish-bitten, world-be cynic, thirty-seven, single, the owner of Rick’s Eating-house Americain, a night club/casino in Casablanca, Morocco, fitting before America’s entry into Time War II. He is the quintessential antihero, a houseman who proclaims, “I stick my neck into the open air in behalf of zero.” At least that’s his philosophy until old zeal Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) shows up. Then all bets are off as Rick turns backtrack from into a noble and caring human being.

On a trivia note, Jack Warner had originally considered George Raft to play the lead, but producer Hal Wallis insisted upon Bogart. Raft would later say he turned down the part because he didn’t want to perform reverse an actress then uninvestigated in America. That’s OK. The year preceding he had turned down the duty of Sam Spade in “The Maltese Falcon,” saying the movie wasn’t important enough and he didn’t conglomerate a initially-constantly director (John Huston). Isn’t it reassuring to know you’re not the only one who makes mistakes? Serendipitous for us, though.

Add to the bewilder Rick’s ever-faithful piano player, Sam (Dooley Wilson, who had to fake his piano playing); Ilsa’s war-hero, intransigence-fighter husband, the ultra-suave, ultra-inexperienced Champion Laszlo (Paul Henreid); a weaselly thief named Ugarte (Peter Lorre); a conniving black-marketeer, “leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca,” Senor Ferrari (Sydney Greenstreet); a lovable headwaiter, Carl (S.Z. Sakall); a magnificently evil villain, Major Heinrich Strasser of the German Third Reich (Conrad Veidt); and a Prefect of Police more sympathetic to himself than to the Germans who consume his city, Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains). What you book is an ensemble arrangement that is unquestionably the most successfully ever assembled. More serendipity: the studio had entertained thoughts of using, among others, either Ronald Reagan or Joseph Cotten for the interest of Laszlo; Hedy Lamarr or Ann Sheridan for Ilsa; Clarence Chew over or Lena Horne for Sam; and Otto Preminger for Larger Strasser.

But let’s not lose commander Michael Curtiz, a staple of the Warner Brothers’ production clique; curmudgeonly though he was, he created some the studio’s most noted films. To name just a few besides “Casablanca,” there were “Captain Blood” (1935), “The Concern of the Light Brigade” (1936), “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938), “Angels With Dirty Faces” (1938), “The Wave Hawk” (1940), “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942), “Mildred Pierce” (1945), “Life With Father” (1947), “Jim Thorpe: All American” (1951), “White Christmas” (1954), “The Egyptian” (1954), “We’re No Angels” (1955), and “The Comancheros” (1961). Today, with directors elevated to the with of outright stars, Curtiz may be the most overlooked filmmaker in the history of Hollywood. And he made “Casablanca” on the brink of entirely on a Warner Brothers soundstage!

Then there’s the calligraphy. Admit it: Can you concoct of any other fade away with so myriad memorable lines? No wonder Woody Allen’s character in “Play It Again, Sam” had every word memorized and could recite the dialogue along with the actors. Think nothing of a misrepresent: Randomly fast forward to any spot in the movie and listen to the conversation. I’m betting you’ll find a renowned succession. Try these examples:

Ugarte: “You look down on me, don’t you?”
Rick: “If I gave you any bit I probably would.”
Ugarte: “Rick, intend of all the poor devils who can’t collect Renault’s price. I promote it for them for half. Is that so…parasitic?”
Rick: “I don’t plans a leech. I thing to a edit out-rate one.”
Ugarte: “You know, Rick, I have tons a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you disdain me, you are the on the other hand one I trust.”
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Yvonne: “Where were you model night?”
Rick: “That’s so long ago, I don’t remember.”
Yvonne: “Will I brood over you tonight?”
Rick: “I at no time bring about plans that incomparably ahead.”
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Ilsa: “Play it split second, Sam. To decayed times’ sake.”
Sam: “I don’t conscious what you manner, Be nostalgic for Ilsa.”