JULIE & JULIA
HEADLINE: ** A Savory Delight **
Title: JULIE & JULIA
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: -1
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LL
Violence: V
Sex: S
Nudity: N
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: August 7, 2009
TIME: 123 minutes
STARRING: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chirs Messina, Linda Emond, and Mary Lynn Rajskub
DIRECTOR: Nora Ephron
PRODUCERS: Laurence Mark, Nora Ephron, Amy Robinson, and Eric Steel
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Scott Rudin, Donald J. Lee, Jr., and Dana Stevens
WRITER: Nora Ephron
BASED ON THE BOOKS: JULIE & JULIA by Julie Powell and MY LIFE IN FRANCE by Julia Child
DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Entertainment
CONTENT: (B, PC, RH, Ho, LL, V, S, N, A, D) Light moral worldview in story about two career women, with a positive view of marriage, including spouses support one another through thick and thin, plus some politically correct content disparaging Republicans and revisionist history regarding Senator Joseph McCarthy's campaign against Communist spies in the federal government, and a man is asked if he's a homosexual; 11 obscenities (including one "f" word, six light profanities and a woman is called the "b" word; angry woman kicks an object in the kitchen and a comic bit on TV where a man dressed as Julia Child cuts his finger, bleeds all over his apron and faints; implied married sex between two married couples, a couple double entendres comparing cooking food to sex and some passionate kissing; brief upper male nudity and back of woman's bra shown; alcohol use; smoking; and, nothing else objectionable.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: JULIE & JULIA is a savory cinematic dish about a young woman who is inspired by famous American cook and TV pioneer Julia Child to spend one year cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child's book on French cuisine and writing a blog about it. The movie deftly goes back and forth between the woman's experience and Julia Child's early career, but it contains some foul language, some light sexual references and some brief politically correct content.
IN BRIEF:
JULIE & JULIA weaves together two stories 50 years apart. The movie stars Meryl Streep as the famous American cook and TV pioneer Julia Child, co-author of MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING. It follows Julia as she and her diplomat husband, Paul, begin living in Paris in 1949. It is there that Julia begins her lifelong passion for French cuisine. Fifty-three years later, young Julie Powell, a wannabe writer, decides to spend one year cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child's book and writing a blog about it. The question is, will anybody read it?
JULIE & JULIA is a savory dish that will please moviegoers looking for something a little different. Though the story revolves around a passion for fine cooking, it is the passion for life itself that comes across most. Happily, Julie and Julia are committed to their respective marriages, as are their spouses. Regrettably, the movie contains some foul language, including one "f" word. There are also light references to the sex lives of the two married couples. Finally, there are some annoying politically correct moments, including some jokes at the expense of Julia Child's staid Republican father.
