Julia and Julie

Movie Title-- Julia and Julie

Release Year-- 2009

Running Time-- 2 Hour and 3 Minutes

Production Company-- Columbia Pictures

Director-- Nora Ephron

Cast-- Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond


Julie Powell, after looking at her life teetering on the edge of 30 decides to create a blog and over the course of 365 days cook all 524 of the recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" cookbook. This blog takes her on her own personal adventure of growth, while also sharing the details of Julia Child's early life.

I think that this film was pretty cute. It wasn't really the best movie I have seen lately but it was by far not the worst one. This story is based on a true story, Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams in the film) actually did start the blog and she did make all the recipes from the cookbook in a year's time. She then was offered a book deal, where she wrote it all down and in the end, a film was produced from it.

Her story does give me a little bit of hope however. In the beginning of her blogging it seemed like no one was reading but the more she ventured forward, the more readers she picked up. When ever she got discouraged she would think about Julia Child and how Julia probably wouldn't be acting how she was and try to make herself feel better. It really seemed more like a late in life self discovery story, something that Julie had to do for herself more than anything else.

Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci were great in this film. They seem to make a pretty good onscreen team (if you haven't checked out their performances in "The Devil Wears Prada", that is a good one to check out). Streep plays Julia Child and Tucci plays her husband Jeremy and the two of them just seem to flow with each other.

In all reality, watching Julie go through her life, doing something she loves to try to make her a better person and seeing Julia's own story of success makes these two women good role models for any woman that feels like they may have lost their way somewhere along the way. All in all, this film was a pretty decent one. Until next time, don't forget the popcorn!!