A Good Year is a 2006 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. The film is about a London-based, successful investment banker, Max Skinner, who has a chance to inherit his uncle’s winery in the south of France. He arrives at the estate to find the locals unimpressed with his “city boy” ways, and the vineyard in disarray. With the help of the attractive local French woman, Fanny Chenal, Max sets out to restore the vineyard to its former glory. Along the way, he falls in love with the land, the wine, and …