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Julie and Julia
Director: Nora Ephron
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Starring: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Vanessa Ferlito
Language: English
Country: United States
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Julie and Julia is an 2009 drama film, written and directed by Nora Ephron, depicting events in the life of famed chef Julia Child. Ephron’s screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child’s autobiography, written with Alex Prud’homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell.
In August 2002, Powell started documenting online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog, The Julie/Julia Project, into a book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown, 2005). The paperback was retitled Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Back Bay Books, 2006). Both books adapted by Ephron were written and published in the same time frame of 2004-06.
Ephron began filming Julie & Julia in March 2008. In the first major motion picture based on a blog, Meryl Streep portrays Julia Child, and Amy Adams appears as Julie Powell. The film is scheduled for August 7, 2009 release.
Frustrated temp secretary Julie Powell embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. The film also covers the years Child and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) spent in Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, when he was a foreign diplomat who was eventually investigated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy for alleged communist ties.
Cast:
- Amy Adams as Julie Powell
- Meryl Streep as Julia Child
- Stanley Tucci as Paul Child, Julia Child’s husband
- Chris Messina as Eric Powell, Julie Powell’s husband
- Linda Emond as Simone “Simca” Beck, with whom Julia wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking
- Jane Lynch as Julia Child’s sister
- Mary Lynn Rajskub as Helen, Powell’s best friend
- Vanessa Ferlito
- Casey Wilson
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