Julie & Julia

Release date: 30 July 2009 (New York City, USA)

Not half as good as the book (and the book wasn't that good to start) Julie & Julia is saved by Meryl Streep (as Julia Child) and Stanley Tucci (as her husband, Paul). Nora Ephron directs the half-baked screenplay cobbled together from the novel by Julie Powell. A wasted Amy Adams tries hard but falls as quickly as a souffle from the oven as the bureaucrat looking for meaning in her life, Julie. The scenes with Meryl shine and give us a wonderful sense of the woman who brought French cuisine to American housewives. The proof is in proverbial pudding, they say, and this dish is dead on arrival.

My rating 5 out of 10