TV Guide: Online Video Guide Alexander Payne

Critics' Picks: 'Citizen Ruth'

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:53:00 -0500

A. O. Scott looks back at Alexander Payne's 1996 film starring Laura Dern as a pregnant glue-sniffer who becomes a pawn in the abortion debate.

'King of California' Trailer No. 1: 'King of California' - Trailer No. 1

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:10:49 -0500

Michael Douglas stars as a treasure-hunting eccentric in this Alexander Payne-produced comedy from director Michael Cahill. Recently released from a mental institution and reunited with his teenage daughter, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood), Charlie (Douglas) decides there's century's old gold buried near their lower-middle-class neighborhood, and sets out on an obsessive quest to find it. Along the way, the estranged parent and child rekindle a long-lost bond with each other. Featuring a score by David Robbins, King of California screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. - Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

'King of California' Trailer No. 1: 'King of California' - Clip No. 1

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:10:49 -0500

'Sideways' Trailer: 'Sideways' - Trailer

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:46:48 -0500

Directed by Alexander Payne, Sideways follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), who is distressed about his lack of success as a novelist, and Jack (Thomas Haden Church), an equally unsuccessful actor with a rapidly approaching wedding. In a last-ditch effort to sow their wild oats, Jack and Miles take off on a final road trip to California's wine country the week prior to Jack's wedding. Both men have goals for the vacation -- Miles wants to turn Jack on to the art of wine tasting, while Jack is concerned with exploiting his last days as a bachelor -- but when the two men come across two fascinating women (Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh), the duo is forced to examine their morality, and if maturity isn't such a depressing prospect -- at least, for one of them. - Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide