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Julie & Julia is a 2009 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Nora Ephron. The screenplay was written by Ephron, Julie Powell, and Julia Child, with Alexandre Desplat composing the score. The cast includes Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, and Chris Messina. Produced by Columbia Pictures, the film was distributed by Sony Pictures and Netflix. It is rated PG-13 and has a runtime of 123 minutes.
The narrative is set in New York City, Paris, and Marseille, while filming took place in New York City, New Jersey, and Paris. The film was released on August 6, 2009. It received a Metascore of 66 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 76%. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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6.7Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Cast
- Meryl Streep as Julia Child
- Amy Adams as Julie Powell
- Stanley Tucci as Paul Child
- Chris Messina as Eric Powell
- Linda Emond as Simone Beck
- Helen Carey as Louisette Bertholle
Themes
- cooking
- cookbook
- blog
- 9/11
- woman director
- gastronomy
- french cuisine
- culinary arts
- publishing
- celebrity chef
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
134,333 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
76%
Metacritic
66/100
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 26 wins & 48 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Nora Ephron
- Screenplay by
- Nora Ephron
- Based on
- My Life in France , by Julia Child , Alex Prud'homme Julie & Julia , by Julie Powell
- Produced by
- Nora Ephron Laurence Mark Eric Steel Amy Robinson
- Starring
- Meryl Streep Amy Adams Stanley Tucci Chris Messina Linda Emond
- Cinematography
- Stephen Goldblatt
- Edited by
- Richard Marks
- Music by
- Alexandre Desplat
- Production companies
- Columbia Pictures Easy There Tiger Productions Laurence Mark Productions
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release date
- August 7, 2009 ( 2009-08-07 )
- Running time
- 123 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $40 million
- Box office
- $129.5 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Julie & Julia is a 2009 American biographical comedy drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams in the title roles with Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, and Linda Emond in supporting roles. The film contrasts the life of chef Julia Child (played by Streep) in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell (played by Adams), who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook in 365 days, a challenge she described on her popular blog, which made her a published author.
Ephron's screenplay is based on two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Powell, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (later retitled Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously). Both of these books were written and published between 2004 and 2006. Powell's book was based on her blog The Julie/Julia Project, where she documented online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The film is the first major motion picture based on a blog.
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