Julie & Julia

    Julie & Julia
    2009

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Meryl StreepJulia Child
    • Amy AdamsJulie Powell
    • Stanley TucciPaul Child
    • Chris MessinaEric Powell
    • Linda EmondSimone Beck
    • Helen CareyLouisette Bertholle
    • Mary Lynn RajskubSarah
    • Jane LynchDorothy McWilliams
    • Joan Juliet BuckMadame Brassart
    • Crystal McCrearyErnestine

    Recommendations

    • 83

      Entertainment Weekly

      It hooks you up, happily, to your inner top chef.
    • 80

      Slate

      Julie & Julia makes deboning a duck a feminist act and cooking a great meal a creative triumph. The stakes may not be as high as the kill-or-be-killed suspense of a summer action movie, but the sauces are way tastier.
    • 75

      St. Louis Post-Dispatch

      Streep is astonishing, conveying Child's gusto, her quavering voice, even her height.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      As enjoyable as this foodie movie is, you wish it would take a deeper, more nuanced measure of the women who, in two different eras, star in the movie's kitchens.
    • 70

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Julie & Julia is full of holes, but you don't even care when Streep is onscreen.
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Julie & Julia is not lacking in entertainment value, especially with the Streep performance. But if the men had been portrayed as more high-spirited, it might have taken on intriguing dimensions.
    • 63

      Charlotte Observer

      You know the feeling you get when you make a meal of two mildly savory appetizers that don't quite go together, and you leave you wishing you'd eaten one hefty entrée? That's Julie & Julia. Half an hour later, I wanted to watch another movie.
    • 63

      Miami Herald

      The movie could have used a few more scenes focusing on Child at work in the kitchen -- a few more scenes with Child doing anything, really.

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