Two lives and two stories are blended in this comedy-drama about the early days of Julia Child’s cookery career and Julie Powell’s recipe-driven blog.

Julia Child was searching for her calling in life when in 1948 her husband’s job brought her to Paris. In her quest to find something to do, she enrolled at the Cordon Bleu cooking school and eventually landed a new challenge –changing American home cooking forever and becoming one of the world’s first celebrity chefs.

Fifty years later, Julie Powell also finds herself looking for new challenges as she nears 30 and feels the frustration of being stuck in a career rut. Focusing all her energy on Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” book, Julie vows to spend exactly one year recreating all 524 recipes and documents the progress in a blog.

Meryl Streep steps into the role of Julia perfecting the American TV chef’s tone and personality, while Julie Powell’s blog is turned into an amusing story acted by Amy Adams. The first blog to become a major film, this is a unique and well directed effort to merge two bestsellers into one palatable movie.

 

 

Julie and Julia – Dir Nora Ephron, starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci