A Good Year (2006)

Abbie Cornish: Christie Roberts

Photos 

Quotes 

• Max Skinner : [Upon first encountering Christie, at the door]  The only country that issues teeth like that is America.

  Christie Roberts : Oh... you speak English.

  Max Skinner : Like a native.

• Christie Roberts : Are your memories of my father good?

  Max Skinner : No they are extraordinary. My uncle loved women, although no one for a long time, and he never married. He loved England, yet lived in France. He was an adventurer, yet all my memories take place within 100 steps of this spot.

• Christie Roberts : Did you know that dad mixed a martini for Winston Churchill? He also danced a waltz with Amelia Earhart in 1975.

  Max Skinner : Well, considering that Amelia Earhart died in the 1930's, that's a perfect example of the type of exaggerator Uncle Henry was. Want to know the real Uncle Henry? Not the one your overactive imagination is manufacturing? The *real* Henry Skinner was a man so afraid of committing to the real world, that he retreated from life to drink and shag his way to a lonely and loveless end.

• Christie Roberts : I love your accent.

  Charlie Willis : I love your bum.

• Christie Roberts : Thanks a million, Maximilian.

• Charlie Willis : I nursed you through second degree burns. My fingers are damaged.

  Christie Roberts : Frostbitten

  Charlie Willis : Like your heart.

• Christie Roberts : I spend summers working in a vineyard in California.

  Francis Duflot : [Chuckles]  In California, they don't make wine. They make Hawaiian Punch.

• Francis Duflot : Francis Duflot, vigneron.

  Christie Roberts : Christie Roberts, illegitimate daughter.

• Christie Roberts : That's what people want. Not some wimpy wine from Luberon.

• Christie Roberts : Huh! Back in Napa, we're known to gargle and spit on occasion.

  Max Skinner : Well, well. Guess who knows a thing or two about wine?

• Christie Roberts : [Speaking to Max]  If this place meant as much to him as I believe it did, you're worse than I thought for even *thinking* about selling it... I'll leave tomorrow.

• Francis Duflot : [Bringing out a special bottle of wine]  C'est "Le Coin Perdu"... it's a local vin de garage.

  Max Skinner : [confused]  "Vin de garage"?

  Christie Roberts : It's a "garage wine." Like a boutique wine. Small vineyards, small productions - *seriously* big prices.

  Francis Duflot : [dismissively]  It's overrated.

  Christie Roberts : It didn't say that on the Web. Turns out "Le Coin Perdu" is a Provencal legend. It changes hands among collectors, but nobody knows who makes it.

• Christie Roberts : Max, all I want is to learn about my father. This is my chance to find out who made me and... I don't care if you believe me or not.

• Francis Duflot : In California, they don't make wine, they make Hawaiian Punch.

  Christie Roberts : Mondavi might argue with that one.