Overall, this is a very, very well-crafted story with great acting and directionbut a story that seemed inadequate and could have used a re-workingwithout Julie. I think I can guess why, but just glossing over this briefly near the end seemed unsatisfying. All too often, I found myself hating this character-and wanting to see so much more of Streep as Julia Child. Think about itthis lady was willing to lose her husband over a dream that, to me, seemed silly and not terribly important. Her character seemed shallow and a bit self-involved. As for Amy Adams, she did a good job with what she was given, but she wasn't given much. These portions in the movie, though WAY TOO BRIEF, were quite touching and made me shed a few tears. Child's pain in not being able to have children as well as see more about her loving and sweet relationship with her husband. I would have loved to have heard more about Ms. In fact, I wish the whole Julie plot had been removed and it simply been the story of Julia Child.PERIOD. So why, despite this major complaint, did I still give the movie a 7? Well, the portions with Meryl Streep deserved a 10-they were wonderful and I really, really wanted to see a lot more of this. This seemed to go far beyond just 'fan fiction' and on top of this, I really didn't like this character all that much-though, with Amy Adams in this part, it's hard to hate her because of Adams' bubbly and nice persona. In other words, Julie didn't really DO anything of her own and made a name for herself solely by recreating recipes by another person. Maybe some of this is because my wife, like Julia Child, is an author and it just seemed like Julie was piggybacking off Ms. The problem for me, however, was not the style of telling the story but that I felt little, if any, connection to Julie and really wanted to know so much more about Julia. I liked that this movie chose an unusual method to tell the story by bouncing back and forth from Julie's life in the present to Julia Child's life in the 1940s and 50s.

Child-so good that at times it was quite touching and beautiful.

The story was set, at times, in the present and much of it consisted of Meryl Streep doing a magnificent impersonation of Ms. This film is about two parallel journeys-Julia Child's creation of a magnificent cookbook and Julie's following all the recipes in the book in one harried year. Reviewed by MartinHafer 7 / 10 Too much Julie, not enough Julia.but still worth seeing.

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