Take a cultivated, depressed, unpublished writer.
Take a charming, aroused, soon-to-be-groom actor
Take them on a week-long tour of vineyards days before the wedding.
What do you have?
A disaster waiting to happen and a friendship likely to end.
Include Alexander Payne as the director of the film, and you have the wonderful feature Sideways from 2004.
The two old university-roommates Miles and Jack have on their trip to the Californian vineyards two different objectives. Miles wants to “drink a…