Julie & Julia ~ This wonderful flick blends two true stories into one film with two parallel storylines – "My Life in Paris" by Julia Child and her nephew and Julia Powell’s terrific blog The Julie/Julia Project where she cooks all the recipes in Child’s "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in one year. Writer/director Nora Ephron, who is sometimes too sweet and chick-flicky for my tastes, took on the task and produces a terrific movie that entertains from start to finish.
Meryl Streep is both charming and over the top as Child, and Amy Adams adds her usual spunkiness to blogger Powell. Both Julias have wonderful dueling relationships with their significant others, Streep's shining with Stanley Tucci as Child's husband. Their romance is one of the warmest I have seen in quite some time. I loved this film, but be warned, it will also make you hungry.
Delightful film. Meryl Streep did a superb job.
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