Two friends on a wine-soaked road trip find whimsical romance and melancholy laughs in California.
Intimate and feel-good, with dry wit. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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It stays inside its R, with moderate sex and nudity, and no real violence.
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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 One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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