Whose idea was it to go to Napa to celebrate Rebecca’s 50th birthday? Because it wasn’t Rebecca’s.
A psychoanalyst who’s been actively repressing many of her own issues, Rebecca (Rachel Dratch) is determined not to make a big deal about reaching the half-century mark, but five of her oldest friends — which is to say, dearest acquaintances of longest date — have insisted she celebrate.
To mark the occasion, they’ve booked a girls’ trip to “Wine Country,” where copious amounts of alcohol accelerate the group’s naturally hilarious tendencies.“Sideways” this isn’t, seeing as the women show an almost hostile disinterest in learning anything about wine, and the movie never questions whether they might be drinking too much of the stuff — even when they all wind up in the hospital at the end.
Still, as far as a directorial debut for “Saturday Night Live” alum Amy Poehler goes,
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