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Release Date:
7 August 2009 (USA)
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Tagline:
Passion. Ambition. Butter. Do You Have What It Takes? more
Plot:
Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Meryl Streep | ... | Julia Child |
 | Amy Adams | ... | Julie Powell |
 | Stanley Tucci | ... | Paul Child |
 | Chris Messina | ... | Eric Powell |
 | Linda Emond | ... | Simone Beck |
 | Helen Carey | ... | Louisette Bertholle |
 | Mary Lynn Rajskub | ... | Sarah |
 | Jane Lynch | ... | Dorothy McWilliams |
| Joan Juliet Buck | ... | Madame Brassart |
| Crystal Noelle | ... | Ernestine |
| George Bartenieff | ... | Chef Max Bugnard |
 | Vanessa Ferlito | ... | Cassie |
 | Casey Wilson | ... | Regina |
 | Jillian Bach | ... | Annabelle |
 | Andrew Garman | ... | John O'Brien |
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Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some sensuality.
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123 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 (certificate #44272) |
Ireland:12A |
Mexico:A |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
Argentina:Atp |
Norway:A |
Singapore:PG |
Portugal:M/12 |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Germany:o.Al. (f) |
New Zealand:M |
UK:12A |
South Korea:12 |
Japan:G |
Australia:M (original rating) |
Australia:PG (re-rating on appeal) |
Sweden:Btl |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB)
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This is the second film that Meryl Streep has appeared in that has the name "Julia" in the title. The first was her film debut, Julia (1977), in 1977.
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Revealing mistakes: The scene involving Paul Childs photographing a food display in their kitchen, he uses a Rolleiflex camera. While shooting he winds the crank approximately one-and-a-half turns, when loaded with film the transport only requires 2/3 of a turn and stops automatic. So actually he was using an empty camera.
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Julia Child:
Is it kuh-NA-pf or NOFF? Who cares!
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References Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
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Poudre D'Or
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Ms. Streep's performance alone makes this film worthwhile--in recent years she has really shown her great talent as a comedian (Adaptation, Devil Wears Prada, this film). She has great comic timing, and always goes just far enough for the laugh, and usually not too far that it feels staged or unnatural.
From the reviews I read, I was really expecting not to like the "Julie" half of this movie--but I was pleasantly surprised. I read both "Julie and Julia" and "My Life in France" earlier this summer, and I have to confess that I didn't love the Julie Powell book. Amy Adams really brings this character to life and makes you care about her (more so, I think than the book did). One problem with the balance in this project is that Julia Child did something really important for cooking in America, and so her story is inherently interesting. Julie Powell wrote a book. That became a movie. Add to that the fact that the heavy hitters in the film all live on the Julia side--Streep, Stanley Tucci, and a great cameo by Jane Lynch--and the deck feels fully stacked. Full credit to Amy Adams and Chris Messina, then, for making us care about the half of the film that teetered on the edge of the perfunctory.
This film is all the more remarkable in that it is so rare to see a film these days that just revels in joie-de-vivre. I'm sure a lot of the rough edges of Julia's personality are smoothed over--but some of the stressful moments are there. I just felt so much affection for Streep's Julia Child in this movie--and I laughed repeatedly and heartily at her antics. A fun time at the movies--which is a rarer pleasure than it should be.