SIDEWAYS
Director: Alexander Payne
Lothario: Thomas Haden Church
A dialogue between fidelity and inconsequentiality, connoisseurship and appetite, Sideways' two poles are represented by Paul Giamatti's Miles and Haden Church's aging soap-opera stud, Jack. "There are some things that I have to do that you don't understand," says Jack, in a voice that speaks of surrendered self-control and the dilemma of a sex drive without a brake: The Guy Can't Help It. (2004)
Sideways: Damn, that was a good movie . . .
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