www.mannythemovieguy.com Ah summer. Its a time for big blockbuster movies and Meryl Streep. The greatest living American actress must contend with a new title box-office queen. Streep scored in summer of 2006 with The Devil Wears Prada and then in 2008 with Mamma Mia! Now, shes getting ready for a three-peat with her meaty performance in Julie and Julia. Streep stars as Julia Child, the woman who forever changed the way America cooks and eats. But before she became a household name, Child was an American housewife living in Paris in 1948. Julie and Julia captures Childs rise to culinary fame from her humble beginnings as a student at the famous Cordon Bleu cooking school to her game-changing cooking show, The French Chef. Meanwhile, fifty years later, we meet Julie Powell played by Amy Adams. Shes pushing 30, living in Queens, and working in a cubicle as her friends achieve stunning successes. Julie decides to focus her energy on one crazy plan. For 365 days, shell cook all 524 recipes featured in Childs Mastering the Art of French Cooking (co-written with Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck) and write a blog about her experiences. Writer Nora Ephron (Youve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle) has been inspired by two books namely Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Powell and My Life in France by Child written with Alex Prud'homme. The result is an uneven film with Childs story predictably dominating the narrative. Similar to Streeps film The Hours, Ephron ...
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