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Julie & Julia

  • 20092009
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 3m
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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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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
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122K
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POPULARITY
3,013
853
    • 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
    • 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
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    • 357User reviews
    • 254Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Amy Adams
    Amy Adams
    • Julie Powell
    Meryl Streep
    Meryl Streep
    • Julia Child
    Chris Messina
    Chris Messina
    • Eric Powell
    Stanley Tucci
    Stanley Tucci
    • Paul Child
    Linda Emond
    Linda Emond
    • Simone Beck
    Helen Carey
    Helen Carey
    • Louisette Bertholle
    Mary Lynn Rajskub
    Mary Lynn Rajskub
    • Sarah
    Jane Lynch
    Jane Lynch
    • Dorothy McWilliams
    Joan Juliet Buck
    Joan Juliet Buck
    • Madame Brassart
    Crystal McCreary
    Crystal McCreary
    • Ernestine
    • (as Crystal Noelle)
    George Bartenieff
    • Chef Max Bugnard
    Vanessa Ferlito
    Vanessa Ferlito
    • Cassie
    Casey Wilson
    Casey Wilson
    • Regina
    Jillian Bach
    Jillian Bach
    • Annabelle
    Andrew Garman
    Andrew Garman
    • John O'Brien
    Michael Brian Dunn
    Michael Brian Dunn
    • Ivan Cousins
    Remak Ramsay
    • John McWilliams
    Diane Kagan
    • Phila McWilliams
      • Nora Ephron
    • Writers
      • Nora Ephron(screenplay)
      • Julie Powell(book "Julie & Julia")
      • Julia Child(book "My Life in France")
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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
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      Written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz (as Christopher Frantz) and Tina Weymouth

      Performed by Talking Heads

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    8/10
    Delightful Instant Classic. I Laughed. I Cried. But "Julie" Part a Bit Weak.
    The good parts of "Julie and Julia" are so darn strong, beautiful, and new that J&J becomes an instant classic. Grateful audiences are going to be laughing and crying and being inspired by this movie for a long, long time. The Julie portion is the weaker of the two, but not so weak that it sinks the film.

    Meryl Streep as Julia Child is one of the most endearing, arresting performances ever. That the real Julia Child and her groupies irritate me no end in no way interfered with my appreciation of Streep's amazing characterization. I laughed and cried several times, I was so engaged in the cinematic Streep/Child's story.

    Streep's chemistry with Stanley Tucci as Paul Child, Julia's husband, is breathtaking. No attempt is made to make Streep or Tucci conventionally attractive. No attempt is made to make them look young and dewy – they weren't – Julia married Paul when she was in her thirties and he was ten years older. Julia is tall; Paul is short; Julia is loud; Paul is bald, quiet and retiring. It is implied that they can't have children. They don't share conventionally romantic movie moments; they don't "meet cute," there's no candlelight, no slow dances, no full frontal nudity, no vulgar language (with one hilarious exception involving cannelloni).

    All Paul and Julia do is share the drudgery and rewards of working life: hers as a cook, his as a state department official. The key to Streep and Tucci's chemistry is that they portray two characters who love each other. Watching a loving, married couple in a marriage that works is one of the great, and sadly rare, pleasures of this film. Steep and Tucci are every bit as charismatic a couple as Tracy and Hepburn. Jane Lynch is also brilliant in a small role as Julia's sister.

    The Julia segments take place in post-war Paris, and the Paris of this film, one of elegant cafes, haute couture and vintage cars, is someplace we all wished we lived (except for the ever-present cigarette smoke.) No matter how you feel about cooking, the film gets you to care about Julia's slowly being drawn into her destiny as one of the legendary chefs of all time. You also care about, and respect, Paul, his career and its ups and downs in the McCarthy era, and his support of his wife.

    The Julie Powell portion of the movie is the weaker portion. I really like the film's structure of switching back and forth between contemporary Queens and post-war Paris, contrasting a career woman's attempt to cook all of Julia Child's recipes with Julia Child herself, before she became famous. I just think that the film fails its own structure by simply not making the Julie Powell portion as interesting as the Julia Child portion. Some have complained that Queens is depicted as being too dismal, and Paris too elegant. It's more than that, though.

    I think Ephron, a brilliant filmmaker, drops the ball with Julie Powell because she never engages the tough questions about Powell's experiment. Was Powell just someone eager for fame in the Warhol era of "Everyone is famous for fifteen minutes"? Was Powell parasitizing Child's fame? Was Powell a bad wife to her husband as she obsessed on completing her self assigned task? Have blogs killed quality writing? Was Julia Child correct in her condemnation of Powell? I am not saying that the answer to any of the above questions is "Yes." I'm not bashing Julie Powell. I'm saying that by not engaging them, Ephron made the Julie portion of the film simply not as interesting as it could have been had these very real questions been engaged. Instead, Ephron tries to turn Julie into a cute, bland Meg Ryan character, and it never works, not for an instant. When Powell has lunch with her career gal friends, her friends are such Gordon Gecko style sharks that we care less for Powell for being so needy as to want to impress them. The absolute worst scene in the movie comes when Powell, who has never been depicted as feeling happy or fulfilled, not with her job, not with her husband, not with her home life, plays 65 answering machine messages from agents, editors, and publishers who want to make her famous. As these messages play, she has sex with her husband, and her husband's comment lets us know that this is the first time in a long while that he has experienced satisfaction from his wife.

    The message of that scene is so tawdry, it cheapens the glow created by the Julia portion of the film, that shows Julia Child achieving satisfaction *before she ever becomes famous*. Julia *loved* cooking. Julia *loved* her husband. Yes, she celebrates when Knopf wants to publish her book, but she is so divorced from the rat race that she doesn't even know how to pronounced "Knopf" – whether the initial K is silent.

    Julie Powell is depicted as needing fame to feel good about herself, and the movie never interrogates that. Had it done so, the Julie segments would have been as interesting as the Julia ones.

    In any case, this is a great film that will enjoy a much deserved embrace by its fans.
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      • August 7, 2009 (United States)
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      • Hoboken Railway Station, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
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