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Julie & Julia - Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Chris Messina, Nora Ephron

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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)

Studios and distributors:

Sony Pictures Releasing

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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.