by Hajnal Farkas

Created on: November 18, 2009   Last Updated: November 19, 2009

One summer evening we were walking in the town centre and I saw the poster of Julie and Julia. I saw that Maryl Streep is staring the film so I wanted to watch it. I read several reviews on it but not seen until last week.

Julie and Julia is a drama comedy written and directed by Nora Ephron. I decided that I won't watch another film where the director and the screenplay writer is the same person but I couldn't resist to Meryl Streep. She is such a brilliant actress and I really like her films, so I walked in the trap again.

Nora Ephron is an American screenplay writer, producer, film director and novelist. She is famous for the screenplay of When Harry Met Sally. She wrote and directed Sleepless in Seattle and wrote, directed and produced You've Got Mail.

The classification of Julie and Julia is 12 years and over. The running time is 123 minutes. For more information on this film visit: http://www.julieandjulia.com/. This film is based on two true stories.

Main Cast:

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Meryl Streep Julia Child

Amy Adams Julie Powell

Stanley Tucci Paul Child (Julia's husband)

Chris Messina Eric Powel (Julie's husband)

Plot:

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The life of Julia Child and Julie Powell are presented in parallel. Julia Child is a housewife, her husband works in the French Embassy in Paris. They don't have any children and they were in their 40s when they are presented. Julie is almost 30 and works for the public, she picks up phones and deals with several problems a day. By the end of the day she gets really tired and she can always be cheered up by cooking something delicious for her husband and their friends.

Julie and her husband live in a small flat over a pizzeria and she really hates living there. Her husband realises that only cooking makes her really calm and happy. He suggests she writes a blog about her cooking experience. Julie's favourite cooking book is Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. She starts blogging the day her husband suggested it. She writes the Julie/Julia project which means that she undertakes to cook all the 524 recipes in 365 days.

Julia is a housewife who can hardly find out what to do. She starts a cooking course but it is too basic for her, so she started to study at the famous Le Cordon Blue. She was the only on woman in the class and the tutor said that she has no aptitude for cooking. She hardly practiced at home. She wanted to share her experiences with American housewives so she wanted to write a cooking book. Two friends of her started already

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