Julie & Julia

I love the movie JULIE & JULIA and the BLURAY edition has some great extras.If you haven't seen the movie, "JULIE & JULIA" is based on the book Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously about writer Julie Powell's blog about cooking 524 of Julia Child's recipes from the book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1, in one year. It also goes back in time and shows what was going on in Child's life and how the book came about. But the movie is so much more than a cook-a-thon and bio-pic. It also deals with how people can transform their lives by following their passion, even when everyone else says you can't do it. The film also shows the love that people can have for one another and how eating is so much more than just satisfying hunger; it brings people together.The movie is funny, has dramatic moments, and the cast is outstanding! I think Meryl Streep did Julia Child better than Julia herself, LOL.And the set and wardrobe designs for the Julia Child segments are beautiful.The JULIE & JULIA BLU-RAY features these extras:===== SPECIAL FEATURES ======* 27:35-minute featurette -- "Creating Julie & Julia"Director Nora Ephron, the real Julie Powell, Meryl Streep (Julia), Amy Adams (Powell), Chris Messina (Powell's husband in the film), Stanley Tucci (Paul Child), Jane Lynch (Julia's sister in the film), costume designer Ann Roth, Child's nephew Alex Prud'Homme, and others discuss making the movie and the books.* 47:29-minute featurette -- "Friends and Family Remember Julia Child"Judith Jones the editor who worked with Julia Child's first book, co-author Simone Beck (Simca), nephew Alex Prud'Homme, and others discuss what it was like working with Julia Child and how it was growing up with such a famous aunt.* 22:21-minute featurette -- "Julia's Kitchen"Smithsonian curators discuss meeting with Child and how they managed to take her kitchen and place it at the Smithsonian. Very insightful and you get a tour of the kitchen and all the stuff in there.* 5 Cooking Lessons *Five cooking lessons -- two with Julia Child "Poaching Eggs" and "Making Hollandaise Sauce"-- the other three recipes feature other chefs: "Scrambled Eggs," "Braised Beef Short Ribs," and "Butter Poached Maine Lobster." I haven't done any of the recipes but they look good.Anyway, there's something really delightful in JULIE & JULIA and even though I've seen it many times now, the first being on cable, I never get tired of watching it.

Before I bought this film I hadn't seen it in a theater or on TV. I bought it because I was curious as to how Meryl Streep would bring Julia Child to the screen and be convincing in the role. Amy Adams, as Julie is absolutely wonderful as the young woman who is a frustrated ad unpublished writer who discovers her heart and soul in a blog she begins online. This is not just any blog...it is the journey of a person who has difficulty completing tasks and who sets out to challenge herself into writing a blog and forcing herself to do so on a daily basis! But what is the subject matter going to be? Blog about what? What will be interesting enough to write and be a subject that she, and hopefully others, will have enough pizazz to hold her focus? Julie loves to cook and decides that recipes will be the point of her blog...but not just any recipe and not just any food! It is to be the foods of France and the recipes of the one woman who brought its wonders into our collective consciousness...Julia Child! We meet Julia Child from the moment she lands in Paris from the USA in 1948, as a woman married to Paul Child, a wonderful man who is in the US Foreign Service. With her bright blue Buick woody station wagon in tow, Julia wends her way through Paris with a brand of animated excitement only she can register. Since she has relatively little to do in her new surroundings, her love of good food along with the foods she is eating at the fine restaurants in the region, gives her the idea of learning how to cook in the French manner. Along the way she decides to try and translate this wonderful cuisine into something suited to the American housewife. The long road from studying at Cordon Bleu and her meeting with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle to the publishing of "Mastering The Art of French Cooking" is the backdrop for Julia Child's part of this wonderful, true story and it is an integral part of the film because of Streep's masterful performance! Once again you are stunned by the transformation of Streep into the rather large (6'2"), very quirky, gifted, intelligent and vocally unique, Julia Child. There is not a moment in the entire film where you do not believe you are actually seeing Child in the flesh and that is quite a feat! Meanwhile Julie decides to blog about her life as it co-insides with and as she offers up all 524 recipes over the next 365 days to her readers, if she indeed gets any, and sets out to follow the culinary path of one of the world's greatest chefs in so doing! This is a fun film that includes all the poignancy, drama and unpredictability of real life...and it is a must see! Yes, you must see this film in order to believe it...better yet, you must have this film in your collection so you can see it again and again when you need a lift or when you just want to watch, yet another jaw-dropping performance by Streep. Once again, a great big BRAVO to the entire cast but especially to Meryl Streep, who never ceases to amaze.

Super cute movie! Inspiring!One thing I do not like is I purchased the digital version on Amazon prime and it did not give me the credits at the end of the movie.