Julie & Julia is just wonderful. Meryl Streep is fantastic as Julia Child. She had to put on weight for the movie. She has Child's mannerisms down just perfectly. Amy Adams does a very good job as a phone agent for the 9/11 recovery commission in NY who has just moved to Queens with her husband and needs to find something to do (just as Julia did as the wife of a diplomat in Paris in 1950's) in order to give her life positive meaning.

Julie decides to write a blog about going through Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking making every single recipe in 365 days. The aspics gives her much trouble and she saves the terrifying deboned duck until the very last. She also doesn't want to inhumanely kill lobsters in order to made thermidor, but she does (funny scene). The cooking becomes an obsession and her initially delighted husband (all those fabulous meals!) finds it difficult to deal with her obsession.

Meanwhile, in parallel, we see Julia in Paris, bored being the wife of a diplomat who eventually hits on the idea of Cordon Bleu cooking school - she loves to eat! She barges her way into the professional cooking class full of ex-GIs after finding the class for housewives boring. Eventually, she ends up helping two French women write a book for Americans about French cooking. After several iterations and many years, the book is finally published. During the interim, we are close up and personal witnesses to Julia and Paul's wonderful and devoted marriage as they go through diplomatic appointments to Paris, Marseilles and Scandinavia... what contrast in life styles and living quarters! Delightful!

Excellent and lots of fun especially for anyone who loves food!