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I think this one falls into the love-it-or-hate-it category. In the Award Winner category, Six Degrees of Troy McClure selects Sidways, based on its win Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy in 2004.*

Don't have a lot of time to go into it now, however, this film has career performances from three actors (Giamatti, Madsen, and Haden Church), all of whom won a host of critic awards. And Sandra Oh, as the fourth character, was decent as well. A great story, and excellent direction by Alexander Payne, who's always able to get the most nuanced performances of his actors. It's score of 94% on Metacritic is one of the top ten all-time scores on that site; I think there's an inherent bias in that a lot of critics out there have had novels or screenplays get rejected, like Giamatti's character, so he has extra relatibility to them.

I'll post links, artwork, etc. later.

*I assume this is allowable. It was never specified whether both of the Golden Globe's two Best Picture categories (drama and comedy/musical) were eligible.