Sideways (Tình Yêu Nơi Quán Rượu) là tác phẩm tiêu biểu cho phong cách ấy. Tình huống của phim đơn giản, co lại đúng bằng kích cỡ thực tế: Hai gã trung niên du hành về miền quê Santa Barbara, California, trước khi một trong hai làm đám cưới. Nhân vật chính là kẻ còn tự do, thầy giáo u sầu Miles (Paul Giamatti) đã ly dị vợ, mê rượu bao nhiêu thì chán đời bấy nhiêu. Trái ngược là diễn viên nghiệp dư Jack (Thomas Haden Church) sắp cưới vợ, tích cực, có vẻ háo hức của một đứa trẻ trước mọi thứ. Cặp đôi điển hình này trèo lên xe hơi mà không cần biết dẫn về đâu. Trong quá trình du ngoạn và thưởng thức rượu nho, tại vùng đất lãng mạn này, họ đã gặp hai cô gái dễ thương, những tình cảm đã nảy sinh trong những tâm hồn khao khát yêu thương... đồng thời cũng phát hiện ra những tài năng... bên lề của chính họ.

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Paul Giamatti

Thomas Haden Church

Virginia Madsen

Sandra Oh

Marylouise Burke

Jessica Hecht

Missy Doty

M.C. Gainey

Alysia Reiner

Shake Tukhmanyan

Shaun Duke

Robert Covarrubias

Patrick Gallagher

Stephanie Faracy

Joe Marinelli

Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.

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Alexander Payne

Sideways

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Michael London Productions

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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

The Holdovers

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With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

The Descendants

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A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.

Saving Face

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With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

The Illusionist

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A high school teacher meets his match in an over-arching student politician.

Election

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A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

Downsizing

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After one of his class papers is stolen and turned into a movie, a young student and his best friend exact a hilarious, slapstick revenge on the Hollywood hot shot who has taken credit!

Big Fat Liar

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A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.

The Nanny Diaries

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Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.

The English Teacher

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

The Family Stone

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Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

Juno

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Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.