Julie & Julia

This is my first movie monday, I hope you like it!

Name: Julie & Julia

Cast:

• Amy Adams as Julie Powell
• Meryl Streep as Julia Child
• Stanley Tucci as Paul Child
• Chris Messina as Eric Powell

 The Plot:

Aspiring writer, Julie Powell, has never finished anything. Her and her husband's life is not looking great. They live above a tacky pizzeria and neither have very satisfying jobs. But when she finds Julia Childs cook book in her kitchen, she decides to write a blog about her cooking her way through the book. The other part of the film is Julia Child moving to france, and finding her love of cooking. The film compares the two stories of these two women.

The Review:

I really liked this film, I thought it was great fun watching all of the recipes being cooked as well as the two stories being compared. Meryl Streeps preformance really impressed me, as i am not always her biggest fan. She was in her element with that character, and she definately deserved the oscar nomination she recived. She and Stanley Tucci work very well as a couple.

The two plots worked well. It helped that the two main characters never physically interact because if they did the way that they split the time of the movie would not make sense. Amy adams, as always, was very sweet in her role as Julie.

I would rate this film:
4/5 stars.

I hope this review helped you!
~Bette
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The Bridges of Madison County (1995). One of Clint Eastwood's few Romantic Films.

The Bridges of Madison County(1995) Romantic drama film based on the novel by Robert James Waller. The film was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with Kathleen Kennedy as co-producer and the screenplay was adapted by Richard LaGravenese. Cast: Eastwood and Meryl Streep, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her performance in the film.

This is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies. The story begins in the summer of 1965. Francesca, a lonely, Italian housewife in Iowa(While her husband and children are away at the Illinois State Fair) meets and falls in love with a photographer who has come to Madison County, Iowa to take pictures for National Geographic on the covered bridges. The four days they spend together turn out to be the most important time in her life. She writes about those four days in a diary which is later found by her children after her death.

This one of those movies I have mixed feelings about, because of the infidelity. Isn't it funny that all the films I seem to have mixed feeling about is Clint Eastwood movies? Anywho... Meryl Streep is absolutely wonderful in this film. One of my favorite scenes is the breakfast scene where all of her story is seen in her face, the results are pure magic. Look at how she closes the refrigerator door with her foot to her laughter. Look at her reaction when she discovers that Clint stopped in her home town in Italy, just because he thought it was pretty. I do not want to give the ending away.. but, I feel she made the right decision.