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Julie & Julia

  • 20092009
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 3m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
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Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in Julie & Julia (2009)
Frustrated secretary Julie Powell (Adams) tries to shake up her life by chronicling her attempt to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year's time.
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  • Biography
  • Drama
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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.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.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.

IMDb RATING
7.0/10
118K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,407
265
  • Director
    • Nora Ephron
  • Writers
    • Nora Ephron(screenplay)
    • Julie Powell(book "Julie & Julia")
    • Julia Child(book "My Life in France")
  • Stars
    • Amy Adams
    • Meryl Streep
    • Chris Messina
Top credits
  • Director
    • Nora Ephron
  • Writers
    • Nora Ephron(screenplay)
    • Julie Powell(book "Julie & Julia")
    • Julia Child(book "My Life in France")
  • Stars
    • Amy Adams
    • Meryl Streep
    • Chris Messina
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 348User reviews
    • 252Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 24 wins & 47 nominations total

    Videos6

    Julie & Julia -- Trailer #1
    Trailer 2:34
    Julie & Julia -- Trailer #1
    Julie & Julia -- "Eggs"
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    Julie & Julia -- "Eggs"
    Julie And Julia
    Interview 0:45
    Julie And Julia
    Julie And Julia
    Interview 0:27
    Julie And Julia
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    Julie And Julia
    Interview with Amy Adams for Julia & Julia
    Interview 0:27
    Interview with Amy Adams for Julia & Julia

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    Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia (2009)
    Amy Adams in Julie & Julia (2009)
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    Amy Adams
    Amy Adams
    • Julie Powellas Julie Powell
    Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep
    • Julia Childas Julia Child
    Chris Messina
    Chris Messina
    • Eric Powellas Eric Powell
    Stanley Tucci
    Stanley Tucci
    • Paul Childas Paul Child
    Linda Emond
    Linda Emond
    • Simone Beckas Simone Beck
    Helen Carey
    Helen Carey
    • Louisette Bertholleas Louisette Bertholle
    Mary Lynn Rajskub
    Mary Lynn Rajskub
    • Sarahas Sarah
    Jane Lynch
    Jane Lynch
    • Dorothy McWilliamsas Dorothy McWilliams
    Joan Juliet Buck
    Joan Juliet Buck
    • Madame Brassartas Madame Brassart
    Crystal McCreary
    Crystal McCreary
    • Ernestineas Ernestine
    • (as Crystal Noelle)
    George Bartenieff
    • Chef Max Bugnardas Chef Max Bugnard
    Vanessa Ferlito
    Vanessa Ferlito
    • Cassieas Cassie
    Casey Wilson
    Casey Wilson
    • Reginaas Regina
    Jillian Bach
    Jillian Bach
    • Annabelleas Annabelle
    Andrew Garman
    Andrew Garman
    • John O'Brienas John O'Brien
    Michael Brian Dunn
    Michael Brian Dunn
    • Ivan Cousinsas Ivan Cousins
    Remak Ramsay
    • John McWilliamsas John McWilliams
    Diane Kagan
    • Phila McWilliamsas Phila McWilliams
    • Director
      • Nora Ephron
    • Writers
      • Nora Ephron(screenplay)
      • Julie Powell(book "Julie & Julia")
      • Julia Child(book "My Life in France")
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    Storyline

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    Julia Child and Julie Powell - both of whom wrote memoirs - find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. —Columbia Pictures
    • cook
    • cooking
    • blog
    • french cuisine
    • food
    • 75 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • Passion. Ambition. Butter. Do You Have What It Takes?
    • Genres
      • Biography
      • Drama
      • Romance
    • Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
      • Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some sensuality
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      During the Valentine's Day dinner, one of the guests asks Julia and Paul if they were spies in the war. Both of them deny this. At the time the modern half of the film was set (2002), the Childs' wartime files had not yet been declassified, but by the time the film itself was made (2009), their records had been made public and it was revealed that Julia had served as a top-secret researcher for the OSS. The filmmakers elected to go only with facts that were established knowledge in 2002, but the spy conversation was thrown in as a sly nod toward the later revelation.
    • Goofs
      The film has Judith Jones stand Julie Powell up due to bad weather. Jones told the Boston Globe in August 2009 that, in fact, she had wanted to meet Julie "because I wasn't sure how you put a blog together and I also wanted to talk about recipe rights", but canceled because "Julia Child looked at her blog and didn't think Julie was a serious cook. There were all these four-letter words - that isn't how you describe food if you care and if you're a good writer. Julia thought we shouldn't have anything to do with it."
    • Quotes

      Paul Child: [to Julia] You are the butter to my bread, you are the breath to my life.

      [later echoed by Julie Powell to Eric Powell]

    • Connections
      Featured in The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Psycho Killer
      Written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz (as Christopher Frantz) and Tina Weymouth

      Performed by Talking Heads

      Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.

      By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

    User reviews348

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    Meryl Streep
    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.
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    FAQ7

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 7, 2009 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Chuyện Hai Nữ Đầu Bếp
    • Filming locations
      • Hoboken Railway Station, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Easy There Tiger Productions
      • Scott Rudin Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $40,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $94,125,426
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $20,027,956
      • Aug 9, 2009
    • Gross worldwide
      • $129,540,522
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 3 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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