Julie & Julia

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Cast: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina.

Director: Nora Ephron

Writer: Nora Ephron (screenplay). Julie Powell (book)

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Upcoming drama film, written and directed by Nora Ephron.The filming began in March 2008. Julie & Julia is the first major motion picture based on a blog, Meryl Streep portrays the legendary Julia Child, and Amy Adams is the depressed cubical worker Julie Powell.

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Julie Powell decides to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She describes her experience in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. The film also covers the years Child and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) spent in Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, when he was a foreign diplomat.

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Ephron’s screenplay is based on two books: My Life in France, Child’s autobiography julia-child-meryl-streep1218729171 , written with Alex Prud’homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In August 2002, Powell started documenting online her experiences of cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began transforming that blog, The Julie/Julia Project, into a book, Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Little, Brown, 2005). The paperback was retitled Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously (Back Bay Books, 2006).