Meryl Streep and Amy Adams are trying their best, but even they cannot save this terminally insipid drama about Julia Child and her admirer Julie Powell. After "Sleepless In Seattle" and "You've Got Mail", director Nora Ephron once again tries to tell a two-track story in which the two main protagonists never meet, but this time she fails miserably.
January 1, 2009
Julie & Julia (2009) *
Meryl Streep and Amy Adams are trying their best, but even they cannot save this terminally insipid drama about Julia Child and her admirer Julie Powell. After "Sleepless In Seattle" and "You've Got Mail", director Nora Ephron once again tries to tell a two-track story in which the two main protagonists never meet, but this time she fails miserably.
