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Julie & Julia - Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Chris Messina, Nora Ephron
Threat advisory: High - High risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
Julie Powell (Amy Adams) is 30 years old, living in a run-down apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the art of French cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year.
At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realizes there's more to mastering the art of French cooking than meets the eye. With Julia's stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mould the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realises she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humour, hysteria, and perseverance.
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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film Julie Powell biography cooking Julia Child cuisine French
Persons of interest
- Amy Adams .... Julie Powell
- Meryl Streep .... Julia Child
- Jane Lynch .... Dorothy McWilliams
- Vanessa Ferlito .... Cassie
- Stanley Tucci .... Paul Child
- Chris Messina .... Eric Powell
- Mary Lynn Rajskub .... Helen
- Dave Annable .... Jake
- Linda Emond .... Simone Beck
- Deborah Rush .... Avis De Voto
- Casey Wilson .... Regina
- Helen Carey .... Louisette Bertholle
- Marceline Hugot .... Madame Bernheim
- Helen Coxe .... Dorothy de Santillana
- Brian Avers .... Garth
- Eric Sheffer Stevens .... Tim
- Kacie Sheik .... Annette
- Andrew Garman .... John O'Brien
- Robert Emmet Lunney .... Bill Koshland
- Michael Brian Dunn .... Ivan Cousins
- Julie Powell .... Author: Julie & Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen
- Alex Prud'homme .... Author: Julie & Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen
- Nora Ephron .... Screenwriter
- Nora Ephron .... Director
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- Awards and film festivals:
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS - Oscars) 2010: Nominated: Performance by an actress in a leading role (Meryl Streep)
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Theatrical report
I'm not the biggest fan of Meryl Streep or Amy Adams but I didn't crave to see this film for them. They're a lucky by-product of Julia Child; one of the first (of many) men & women who inspired me to cook. I may understand the reaction Julia provided in regards to Julie's blog because Julia didn't impact the culinary industry so that someone could make a farce of her cooking; she probably did it because nobody else thought it possible, and kudos to her! Amy Adams' character isn't terrible per se, but some constructive thought should have brought her to the same conclusion that Julia wouldn't have commented otherwise on her goal.
This film received an automatic 3 because of who the main character was; she's just THAT important. It received an additional rating because (and if anyone tells Ms Streep I said this I will HUNT. YOU. DOWN!) Meryl & Amy make almost as good a combination as Meryl & Anne in The Devil Wears Prada.
The Julie Powell biography movie Julie & Julia is directed by Nora Ephron and stars Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Chris Messina.
Government security censorship classification
M (Infrequent coarse language)
Surveillance time
123 minutes (2:03 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 8 October 2009
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