| Director: | Nora Ephron | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer: | Nora Ephron | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Jane Lynch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released: | October 8, 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Runtime: | 123 minutes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Story: |
Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown
apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job
that's going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of
her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her
mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the
Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the
span of one year.
At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crepes, she realises there's more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. With Julia's stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realises she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life's ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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