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Julie & Julia |  | Director: Nora Ephron
Actors: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 29
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 123 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 043396292291
EAN: 0043396292291
ASIN: B002RSDW80
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: December 8, 2009 (In 10 Days)
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Julie & Julia is a film that should be relished with gusto--accompanied by the freshest and best ingredients, pounds of butter, and bottles of the very best wine. It lovingly celebrates the life of one of American food's most influential and beloved figureheads: Julia Child--played here with zest, humor, and a sweet, subtle respect by Meryl Streep, whose performance is spectacular. Julie & Julia is based on the book by Julie Powell, a frustrated New York bureaucrat who wants to be a writer. "But you're not a writer until someone publishes you," she moans. So she gives herself a challenge: to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year, and to blog about it. As Powell (played with chirpy determination by Amy Adams), begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own--and in the end it does provide the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise. But mostly, Julie & Julia is a valentine to Child, to Child's amazing love affair with her dashing husband, Paul (Stanley Tucci, as divine as any soufflé in the film), and to her outlook on embracing life, and ordering seconds. Streep throws herself into the Child role with real affection for her character, and while certain of Child's idiosyncrasies--including her warbly voice and unflappable haphazardness in the kitchen--are retained, it's Child's character and vision which form Streep's portrayal, and which make the film so involving and rewarding. Nora Ephron directs with deftness and a light touch, though she seems at times to be encouraging some of Meg Ryan's onscreen tics in Adams (the self-conscious head tilt, for one). But mostly she simply allows Streep to channel Child and her love of food, her husband, and 1950s Paris. And that is a recipe for something truly sublime. --A.T. Hurley
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 streep's tasty take on julia child is a great take out November 27, 2009
Darryl K. Clark (springfield, missouri)
2009 has been a tough year for a film-goer like me. i am drawn most strongly to character-driven films such as last year's 'the reader' or 'frozen river' or to film biographies that meticulously researched and star-driven with that type of performance that is likewise so researched, yet so nuanced that a viewer can feel he or she is seeing the personality. right there. no frills. in the recent past, jamie foxx and cate blanchett more than fulfilled my needs with their interpretations of ray charles and katharine hepburn. now meryl streep has done the same in this year's 'julie and julia'. her work is standing alone, though there have been and will be the requisite numbers of film biographies for 2009.
words cannot describe streep's performance but i am going to give it a shot. streep is a zesty, tangible delight as world-famous chef julia child. and i am going to stop there because i cannot go any further without mentioning stanley tucci as child's husband paul or jane lynch as child's garrulous sister dorothy. both offer solid support; i hope tucci's work will get its reward when awards fest begins.
these three actors made such a strong impact on me as an audience member that i found myself getting a little testy waiting for them to come back on screen. child's career beginning as a chef runs parallel to the story of julie powell, played charmingly by amy adams. powell, an overworked city employee, is encouraged to start a blog by her husband eric played by chris messina. so, her blog becomes her day-by-day working through child's first cook book. although her story is an inspiring one, it is not as interesting as child's. and adams and messina are too cute to be believed, even as they squabble. julia and paul's life is portrayed as largely idyllic and you think that would be the boring one. but it isn't.
but at the same exchange, i can live without a film about child. at least right now.
 Where is the info listed on extra features? November 23, 2009
R. W. Born (Toledo ,Ohio)
One reviewer was lamenting the non-inclusion of extra features with the standard release of this film. I'm just wondering where she read this information. Can anyone direct me,please? Thanks.
Feel-Good In-Flight Film... November 21, 2009
Giordano Bruno (Wherever I am, I am.)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
... and nothing more. But sometimes that's enough, like a cold Sam Adams when the only other beer on tap is Coors or Budweiser. KLM offers dozens of films on its trans-Atlantic flights, but most of them are Harry Potter I-VI or GI Joe Cobra in various combinations of language and subtitles. Thus it happens that I felt rather benign about this rather flimsy concoction of a film. I was hoping for a strongly-spiced "food movie" on a par with Stanley Tucci's 'The Big Night'. Tucci plays a long in 'Julie and Julia' but his part is as bland as the mixed vegetables in a steakhouse. Julie and Julia is NOT a food movie; it's a sentimental feel-good marriage-crisis movie about Julie, interspersed with a Saturday Night Live spoof of Julia Child.
Meryl Streep is killingly funny as Julia Child, but her performance is pure parody. There's no story to it - not that a story is required - and there's precious little 'food' for thought. A minor surprise is delivered when, at the end of the film, a phone caller tells Julie that Julia doesn't entirely thrill to her fingertips at being exploited for her fame. That surprise remains unexamined.
The real story is Julie's, about Julie, and "it's all about Julie" in Julie's world. I suspect a generation gap appears in my reaction to sweet little Julie and her navel-gazing blog-to-fame. I found her to be an annoying twit. I would have felt quite sorry for hunky hubby, except that he had no personality to feel sorry for. The two tales here - of Julie's marriage and of Julia's education of French cooking - are shuffled together with a minimum of cinematic artistry. All I can really offer is the advice that, if your choice on your next flight is J&J or Harry Potter VII.5, go for J&J.
Five Stars for Film, No Stars for DVD Special Features Manipulation November 18, 2009
IVE (California USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Well, I guess it's finally happened...the consumer and film buff who does not own a Blue-Ray compatible DVD player is now officially SOL. The standard DVD release of Julie and Julia contains as special features only a commentary track and behind-the-scenes featurette. To get the full array of special features, one must purchase the Blue-Ray version of the film, AND of course, a Blue-Ray dvd player. Here are the features NOT available on the standard dvd: tour of Julia Child's kitchen in the Smithsonian; featurette "Friends and Family Remember Julia Child;" and "Cooking Lessons," with Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, and other renowned chefs preparing several of Julia Child's best-loved dishes. Why can't the studio release a two-disc special edition in the standard format for consumers like me who don't own the latest home entertainment equipment? I loved the film (especially The Divine Ms. Streep), loved Julia Child's book "My Life in France," very much liked Julie Powell's book "J & J," and can't tell you how much I've been looking forward to owning the DVD. I'm miffed, and in no position to go out and buy myself a new DVD player in this economy, not even at Christmas. This really stinks. So, five stars for the film itself, no stars for the DVD release manipulation.
 A peculia mish-mash November 10, 2009
C. R. Bates (Beijing China)
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a curious film. It is in two parts presents in an overlapping function. One is a drawn out going nowhere account of Julia Childs many years of writing a 700 page cookery book, the other is about Julie Powell (contemporary, and about whom they said, "Who?") Julie is surprised to find she is a writer and is respected for the quality of her blog about copying Julia Childs's recipes.
Meryl Streep plays Julia Childs as if she is continually drunk or on the happy pills. What is it? A local accent, or was JC continually drunk or on the happy pills? Does one have to be American to understand such a strange way of speaking? Are there people in the US who actually speak like that?
The film is long and seems to be going nowhere, and the impression is that someone made a film about Julia Childs, realized it was dull, drawn out, and boring, and decided to add something novel to rescue a botched effort. The fact that someone became obsessed with re-creating Julia Childs's recipes over a whole year and write about her experiences in an internet blog seems to have been a story that has been cobbled on to salvage something from the efforts.
Julia Childs did not realize how unrealistic and unworldly she was, or how unscrupulous she was with her French collaborators, and Julie Powell was equally unworldly and did not realize that she was a good writer.
This film is a mish-mash and will baffle and certainly not please anyone who is not American
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