What’s Aged the Best?
Church’s Jack; wine culture; regional setting; opening credits; dark comic details
In the discussion (11)
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- Church's Jack is an aged-best portrait of a recognizably indiscriminate womanizer, compared with a reported Warren Beatty because-you-never-know anecdote; the conduct is also flagged for aged-worst discussion.
- Jack suggesting a wine-store career to Miles is funny because the nearby clerk already works there; the film's dated genital euphemisms are also enjoyed.
- Sex is presented as primal and unglamorous rather than erotic, both with Stephanie and with Cammy's husband.
- The two printer boxes and underestimating Stephanie are comic details.
- The fragmented opening credits chart Miles’s delayed departure.
- Stealing money beside family photographs is an admired dark detail, despite reservations about the mother’s-house scene.
- The family photograph reportedly shows Giamatti’s real father, Bart, the baseball commissioner.
- Jack’s wide-open-place enthusiasm is another comic aged-best detail.
- Walking the highway to dinner is a recognizable local detail.
- Miles devouring farmers-market popcorn is funny but briefly makes Maya’s attraction harder to understand.
- Wine culture and the Santa Ynez region are aged-best choices, including its accessibility from Los Angeles.