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Julie and Julia

This article contains indepth information about Julie and Julia starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.

Julie & Julia is a 2009 comedy-drama film, written and directed by Nora Ephron. The film depicts events in the life of chef Julia Child in the early years in her culinary career, contrasting her life with Julie Powell, a woman who aspires to cook all 524 recipes from Child's cookbook.

Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started documenting online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog, The Julie/Julia Project, into a book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown, 2005). The paperback was retitled Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Back Bay Books, 2006). Both books adapted by Ephron were written and published in the same time frame of 2004 to 2006. The film is the first major motion picture based on a blog.

Ephron began filming Julie & Julia in March 2008. Meryl Streep portrays Julia Child, and Amy Adams appears as Julie Powell. The film officially premiered on July 30, 2009 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City and opened throughout North America on August 7, 2009

Plot
Frustrated Lower Manhattan Development Corporation worker Julie Powell (Amy Adams) embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. The film also covers the years Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) spent in Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, when he was a foreign diplomat who was eventually investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy for alleged communist ties.

Cast

Meryl Streep as Julia Child
Amy Adams as Julie Powell
Stanley Tucci as Paul Child, Julia Child's husband
Chris Messina as Eric Powell, Julie Powell's husband
Linda Emond as Simone "Simca" Beck, with whom Julia wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Jane Lynch as Julia Child's sister
Mary Lynn Rajskub as Sarah, Powell's best friend
Vanessa Ferlito as Cassie
Casey Wilson as Regina

Reception

Critical reaction

The film has received generally favorable reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 76% of critics gave positive reviews based on 122 reviews with an average score of 6.7/10. Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 65%, based on 32 reviews. Meryl Streep has been widely praised for her performance as Julia Child. Movie critic A.O. Scott of The New York Times affirmed that "By now this actress [Streep] has exhausted every superlative that exists and to suggest that she has outdone herself is only to say that she’s done it again. Her performance goes beyond physical imitation, though she has the rounded shoulders and the fluting voice down perfectly." Reviewer Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone that "Meryl Streep — at her brilliant, beguiling best — is the spice that does the trick for the yummy Julie & Julia." Similarly, Stephanie Zacharek of Salon magazine concluded that "Streep isn't playing Julia Child here, but something both more elusive and more truthful — she's playing our idea of Julia Child."

Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan commented, "Julie & Julia" does it right. A consummate entertainment that echoes the rhythms and attitudes of classic Hollywood, it's a satisfying throwback to those old-fashioned movie fantasies where impossible dreams do come true. And, in this case, it really happened. Twice." The A.V. Club gave the film a C, explaining, "Julie & Julia" is two movies in one. That’s one more movie than it needs to be." Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+. The review by Slate was also positive.

Box Office

On its opening weekend, the film opened #2 behind G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra with $20.1 million.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Julie and Julia" and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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