...an easy-going, pleasant film...
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
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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Reviews for Julie & Julia
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ebullient, witty, and wonderfully warm-hearted Julie & Julia is a celebration of how to live life to the full.
Another patchy effort from director Nora Ephron who doesn’t quite get a grip on this potentially fascinating story.
Nora Ephron serves up a hearty silver-service banquet with a story that links the lives of two exceptional American women.
With great panache, it celebrates butter, bravery, and believing in oneself, all excellent things, brilliantly executed
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
Who cannot relate to Julia enrolling in the all-male Cordon Bleu Cooking School, crying buckets as she practises chopping mountains of onions?
There are few more civilised, civilising and generally delightful movies around at the moment than Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia.
Julie & Julia is a very American kind of money-spinner. Crucially, though, it is never dumb.
Deliciously funny and warming fare, for which the amazing Meryl deserves her ridiculously overdue third Oscar.
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.
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.
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