Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 11/10/2006(USA)
Release Date: 02/27/2007
Dubbed: English/Espanol/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 118 Minutes
Flags: Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Gladiator duo
Ridley Scott and
Russell Crowe re-team for this adaptation of author
Peter Mayle's best-selling novel about a London-based investment banker who relocates to Provence in hopes of selling a small vineyard he has inherited from his recently deceased uncle. As a child,
Max Skinner (
Freddie Highmore) was taught to appreciate the finer things in life while wandering the vineyard estate of his sophisticated uncle
Henry (
Albert Finney). Life has a strange way or turning out how you least expect it to though, and 25 years later,
Max (
Russell Crowe) is now a prosperous moneyman wheeling and dealing in the cutthroat world of London business. When
Max learns that
Henry has recently passed away and that he has been named the sole beneficiary of his late uncle's modest estate, the keen businessman hastily arranges a flight to France in order to assess the value of the old property and get it prepped for sale. After
Max arrives to find the vineyard in a crumbling state of disrepair, his troubles are further compounded by the stubbornness of gruff estate winemaker
M. Duflot (
Didier Bourdon) and the unexpected arrival of a determined California beauty named
Christie (
Abbie Cornish), who presents herself as a long-lost cousin while making a dubious claim to
Henry's estate. Meanwhile, the overstressed
Max reluctantly finds himself falling for local café owner and town siren
Fanny (
Marion Cotillard), whose formidable guard is quickly worn down by the smitten beneficiary.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
