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Rex Pickett (born July 9, 1952) [1] is an American novelist and filmmaker best known for his novel Sideways, [2] which was adapted into a 2004 movie of the same name directed by Alexander Payne. Career
In 2004, the novel was made into a film, Sideways, directed by Alexander Payne. [2] The film received critical acclaim, and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in addition to being nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Thomas Haden Church) and Best Supporting Actress (Virginia Madsen).
The series spans approximately eight years in the life of its main protagonist, a writer named Miles. At the beginning of Sideways, Miles is a mostly unsuccessful screenwriter and functioning alcoholic who is taking his best friend Jack, a successful TV director, on a trip to California's wine country the week before the latter's wedding.
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Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama road film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Jim Taylor and Payne. A film adaptation of Rex Pickett's 2004 novel, Sideways follows two men in their forties, Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti), a depressed teacher and unsuccessful writer, and Jack Cole (Thomas Haden Church), a past-his-prime actor, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara ...
Sideways is a stage musical with a book by Rex Pickett and music by Anthony Leigh Adams with a lyrics by Pickett and Adams. The show is based on the novel of the same name by Pickett, which he also adapted as a straight play.
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TV Guide gave the film a mixed review: "Unfortunately, writer-director Rex Pickett (making his feature debut) lets the story drag in spots, and the perfunctory development of the relationship between Shock and Paulin's characters is one of several shaky stretches in the narrative.