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Jody Savin has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.
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Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out top-notch chardonnay. Determined to make a name for himself, he sets about getting the booze back to Paris.
Dir. Randall Miller · With Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, Bill Pullman
Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.
Dir. Randall Miller · With Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy
A look at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
Dir. Randall Miller · With Alan Rickman, Rupert Grint, Malin Åkerman
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