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Julie & Julia (Giftset With Cookery Book) [DVD] [2009] | ![Julie & Julia (Giftset With Cookery Book) [DVD] [2009]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kt9kwcghL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Nora Ephron
Actors: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK
Category: DVD
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 3715
Format: PAL
Languages: Danish (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Hindi (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Italian (Dubbed)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.9
EAN: 5035822532083
ASIN: B0032ALWFM
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: March 8, 2010
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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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 Half of a pretty good film August 29, 2010
L. E. Cantrell (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)
There really isn't much to add in this, the 350th Amazon US and 42nd Amazon UK review of "Julie & Julia," so I'll limit myself to one observation.
Not long after "Julie & Julia" was released, another film hit a few screens with, alas, no appreciable effect. It was "Me and Orson Welles." In both films a much larger than life character was brilliantly portrayed by a character actor. In both films, half the screentime was devoted to a younger nonentity. Has the appreciation of the movie-going public held by the movers and shakers of Hollywood and London fallen so low that they believe that big characters and big acting can only be approached through the intermediation of on-screen nobodies?
Get the DVD. Enjoy Streep and Tucci. Sleep through the agita and tsouris of Whats'ername playing Julie. Leave the TV set and get yourself a snack, preferably something from Julia Child's book, whenever that abominable, knuckle-dragging, talks-with-his-mouth-full, clod married to Julie befouls the screen.
Five stars for the Julia half of the film. Zero stars for the Julie half. Two-and-one-half stars overall; call it three.
LEC/AmUS/AmUK/08-10
Julie and Julia August 8, 2010
Anne Bell
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This film was a clever idea and briliantly executed by director and actors especially the sublime Meryl Streep, though the young actress Amy Adams was very good as Julie Powell. The settings in France reminded me of many trips to that country as did the food scenes. Julia Child was brought to life in a charming way and it whetted my appetite not only for French food but for more about her. Thank you for giving me the chance to see the film and I shall watch it again more than once.
Great movie... I'm Hungry August 6, 2010
Jaime Lopes
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great movie, and great to get 30 recipes from the cookbook... a little disappointing that it didn't have the recipe for the Bruschetta they eat early on in the movie, but i have a feeling its actually not from the cookbook anyway... great deal getting the two together, bought it for my wife for her birthday, its her favorite movie!
 A Film About Cooking? August 3, 2010
H. Wright (Lancashire, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Who knew a film about cooking could be so gripping? But this is! Meryl Streep does a great job as Julia Child - her French accent is magnifique, and quite amusing! Amy Adams also does a good job as Julie Powell - it's her character's story that keeps the film anchored, when it switches between the different stories.
All in all, I'd fully recommend you watch it, as I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how amazing this film really is! Go on, if you're thinking about it, buy it!
Great Film July 16, 2010
Mrs. Shona N. Wilson (Bonny Scotland)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Loved the film! Cook book is a small taster of the large cook book which the film is all about!
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