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Julie & Julia (2009)

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Reviews Counted:196

Fresh:147

Rotten:49

Average Rating:6.7/10

Consensus: Boosted by Meryl Streep's charismatic performance as Julia Child, Julie and Julia is a light, but fairly entertaining culinary comedy.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for brief strong language and some sensuality.

Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Aug 7, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $94,125,426

Synopsis: Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with... Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme.

Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. --© Sony [More]

Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina

Starring: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond

Director: Nora Ephron

Director: Nora Ephron
Screenwriter: Nora Ephron
Producer: Nora Ephron, Laurence Mark, Amy Robinson, Eric Steel
Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Dec 8, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
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...an easy-going, pleasant film...

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
12/17/09
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

A charming and witty biographical tale of two women who were brought together as soul mates through the art of food and the joy of cooking...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
12/15/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Pretty light stuff, and the movie's only goal seems to be to convey that fluffiness, as both lives are milked for generally positive comic and romantic moments.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
12/13/09
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

Amy Adams is so meek she echoes Cynthia Nixon's waif servant in Forman's Amadeus. In fact, for a moment I thought she was Ms. Nixon, until I remembered that Amadeus was twenty-five years ago.

Full Review Source: Cinemalogue.com | comment Comment
12/06/09
Rubin Safaya
Rubin Safaya
Cinemalogue.com

Poderia ser descrito como dois médias-metragens montados paralelamente num único longa %u2013 e o fato é que, por mais adorável que Adams seja, é a história protagonizada por Meryl Streep que segura o projeto.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
11/27/09
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

click to read the full review on Movies for the Masses

Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
10/26/09
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

What makes this film memorable and pleasurable, above all, is the ebullient performance of Meryl Streep as Julia Child, unlikely culinary trailblazer and TV star.

Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | comment Comment
10/08/09
Philippa Hawker
Philippa Hawker
The Age (Australia)

As food movies go -- and they've become a genre of their own -- this one may be a little too rich but it's full of delights.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
10/08/09
Sandra Hall
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald

Ebullient, witty, and wonderfully warm-hearted Julie & Julia is a celebration of how to live life to the full.

Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | comment Comment
10/08/09
Ruth Hessey
Ruth Hessey
MovieTime, ABC Radio National

Another patchy effort from director Nora Ephron who doesn’t quite get a grip on this potentially fascinating story.

Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | comment Comment
10/08/09
Annette Basile
Annette Basile
FILMINK (Australia)

Nora Ephron serves up a hearty silver-service banquet with a story that links the lives of two exceptional American women.

Full Review Source: Courier Mail (Australia) | comment Comment
10/05/09
Des Partridge
Des Partridge
Courier Mail (Australia)

With great panache, it celebrates butter, bravery, and believing in oneself, all excellent things, brilliantly executed

Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
10/04/09
Andrea Chase
Andrea Chase
Killer Movie Reviews

It's a delicious, irresistible film whose primary exuberance and pull is created by the combined forces of Meryl Streep and Amy Adams %u2013 their second pairing after Doubt, in which they also hit the acting jackpot

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/02/09
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile

Who cannot relate to Julia enrolling in the all-male Cordon Bleu Cooking School, crying buckets as she practises chopping mountains of onions?

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/02/09
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile

There are few more civilised, civilising and generally delightful movies around at the moment than Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
09/18/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

An adorable and entertaining film that is appealing to the appetite.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | comment Comment
09/11/09
Jolene Mendez
Jolene Mendez
Entertainment Spectrum

Julie & Julia is a very American kind of money-spinner. Crucially, though, it is never dumb.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
09/11/09
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Charlotte O'Sullivan
This is London

Deliciously funny and warming fare, for which the amazing Meryl deserves her ridiculously overdue third Oscar.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
09/11/09
Angie Errigo
Angie Errigo
Empire Magazine

A film that’s charming, funny – especially when Streep is on screen, broadcasting her superb impression of the tall, charismatic, high-pitched Child – but leaves you with a dissatisfaction with modern life that no culinary masterpiece can relieve.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
09/11/09
Nina Caplan
Nina Caplan
Time Out

Meryl Streep at her most relaxed and enjoyable is a main course in herself. Pity we have to share her with a side order of Nora Ephron at her least appetizing.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
09/11/09
Leigh Singer
Leigh Singer
Channel 4 Film
 
 
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