The Nora Ephron film features Meryl Streep as Julia Child, French cooking teacher to the English-speaking world, and Amy Adams as a young aspiring writer who spent a year cooking her way through Child's book Mastering the Art of French Cooking and blogging about her experiences. They both do a great job playing adorable women who, unlike your average movie heroine, are both happily married - their husbands being played by Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina, respectively. The longish (2 hours, 3 minutes) film very charmingly tells their parallel stories and makes you drool over lots of really good-looking food. The movie inspires laughter, tears, pangs of hunger, and a bit of head-shaking at the crazy ways of the world.I couldn't help going out to eat at a restaurant with tablecloths after this movie. I just couldn't bear to follow up such a feast for the eyes with heat-and-eat packaged food. So I had Pasta House's chicken marsala with a house salad, "Italian potatoes," and a carmel-fudge-pecan torte for dessert. It was all nummy. Sort of an early treat for my birthday, which happens to be today. Happy birthday myself!
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