Julie & Julia

by Meryl Streep (Actor)

Other authorsNora Ephron (Director), Nora Ephron (Producer), Linda Emond (Actor), Amy Adams (Actor), Stanley Tucci (Actor), Frances Sternhagen (Actor), Joan Juliet Buck (Actor), Helen Carey (Actor), Amy Robinson (Producer), Laurence Mark (Producer), Casey Wilson (Actor) — 9 more, Chris Messina (Actor), Jane Lynch (Actor), Eric Steel (Producer), Mary Lynn Rajskub (Actor), Vanessa Ferlito (Actor), Deborah Rush (Actor), Jillian Bach (Actor), Crystal Noelle (Actor), George Bartenieff (Actor)

Streaming video, 2013

Status

Available

Publication

(2013)

Description

Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise. Julia Child has an amazing love affair with her dashing husband, Paul, all while embracing life and French food. Julie lovingly celebrates the life of one of American food's most influential and beloved figureheads.

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Rating

(31 ratings; 3.5)

User reviews

LibraryThing member librisissimo

Outstanding screenplay and acting.

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LibraryThing member comfypants

Julia Child writes her cookbook, and decades later someone writes a blog about cooking from it.

I expected the Powell stuff to be mediocre and the Child stuff to be great. Instead, the Child stuff is mediocre (maybe C plus territory - nice characters but with no story worth telling), and the Powell

stuff is horrendous. What they were thinking when they decided to make a movie out of Julie Powell - a self-centered, emotionally immature, self-declared bitch with no (portrayed) redeeming qualities, that doesn't do anything more interesting than use a popular cookbook - is completely baffling. And on top of that, it's not just a bad character with no story, but it's also some of the worst writing I have ever seen in a film.

Concept: D
Story: F
Characters: C
Dialog: F
Pacing: C
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: C

Enjoyment: F

GPA: 1.7/4

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