Julie & Julia (2009)

I expect this will be on next years Golden Globe nomination list. Meryl Streep plays Julia Child, and Amy Adams plays Julie Powell in a story intertwining the life of Julia Child and the project of Julie Powell.

Julia Child and her husband Paul Child, played by Stanley Tucci (you would recognize him from a slew of very minor roles through the years, this is most significant supporting role and by far his best thanks to working alongside Strepp), they live in France and Paul works from the US Government. Julia learns to cook and eventually starts writing a cookbook.

Flashforward 50 years and Julie Powell with the encouragement of her husband decide to start a blog, "The Julie/Jula Project" (http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/) and she sets out to cook all 500+ recipes in Julia Child's book in one year, while blogging about each one.

As a new blog writer I completely share her excitement when you get new followers, people post comments, and your site gets more hits. It is easy to feel that you are writing to yourself, and confirmation that someone cares means a lot.

There are a few parts of the story I felt they left out, for instance I don't know if the two women ever met. Overall it was a fun movie, for a potential awards movie it was good, not too long, and had some strong supporting actor/actress roles. This is worth watching.

Vote: 8/10

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/

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