Movie Info
Genre
Biography, DramaRelease Date
August 07, 2009MPAA Rating
PG-13Duration
123 min.Studio
Columbia PicturesOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Nora EphronProducer
Laurence Mark, Amy Robinson, Eric Steel, Nora EphronScreenwriter
Nora EphronStarring
- Meryl Streep as Julia Child
- Amy Adams as Julie Powell
- Stanley Tucci as Paul Child
- Mary Lynn Rajskub as Sarah
- Chris Messina as Eric Powell
- Brian Avers
- Dave Annable as Jake
- Vanessa Ferlito as Cassie
- Jillian Bach
Movie Story
Based on Julie Powell's book "Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen." Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul. Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year.
At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realizes there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. With Julia's stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.
Reader's Reviews
I can't wait to see this movie...I'm sure will be grea!
posted by Movie Fan on Apr 18, 2009Oh my goood! I´m soooo happy about it!!! Meryl is always sooo great and funny!! =) I LOVE ♥MERYL♥
posted by MerylsLove on Apr 28, 2009whens the premiere in the uk for this movie and where abouts? please if anyone knows let me know as soon as possible please please please thanks xx
posted by sophie.streep on May 02, 2009I loved it. Great character development. The past is beautifully detailed. The present is touching. Meryl is Julia Child and it's so fun to watch her act. The whole cast was enjoyable. The story is touching, realistic and the food, well aside from Meryl, it steals the show. Don't go hungry!
posted by LA Movie Watcher on May 05, 2009omg i need to knwo when the premiere is please help me,, when and where,??? meryl <3 <3 xx Thatss All ;] xxx
posted by shona,streep on May 28, 2009
I had high expectations but was a bit disappointed. It had some funny parts but also very boring parts. Its just a rental....
posted by MovieLuv on Jun 04, 2009Meryl does it again! I feel I am watching Julia Child! Another Oscar for Meryl is around the corner!
posted by Quen4evr on Jul 04, 2009I think he movie pemie is in London Leicester Square but i dont know when .. sorry
posted by Doolly on Jul 11, 2009
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posted by Pqssoptx on Jul 14, 2009WOO CAN'T WAIT TILL THE PREMIERE IS LONDON ! GOING TO MEET MERYL STREEP AGAIN !
posted by MerylStreepIsMyLife on Jul 30, 2009I gotta see Meryl!! I think u people do 2 so im gonna help u.. the movie premiere is on 11 september i think and where is says it somewre in the bottom ..i wrote it before!!
posted by Doolly on Aug 11, 2009Very inspirational, make me want to blog, cook, eat, and live out life the best I can =)
posted by Yan on Aug 11, 2009this movie was excellent, i am 14 years old, and my dad is a chef in his restaurant in LA. when he heard about this movie, he couldn't wait to see it, he told me all about Julia Child. honestly, i wasn't that interested in seeing the movie. but, i immediately fell in love with it. i am asking for the dvd for my birthday!
posted by bailey on Aug 13, 2009Just came from seeing the movie (8/19/09). If you love Meryl you'll enjoy it. Some laughs, good personifications, but it really disappointed us (me and my wife). Just rent it.
posted by M on Aug 19, 2009Sorry, For some dumb reason someone/some people here/there in the Mid. Southwest NM do not think we need to see this movie??????????????????
posted by Interested on Aug 22, 2009
