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...365 days - and chronicle her efforts in a blog. The film alternates between Child and her husband's life in France and, 50 years later, Powell's life in a New York apartment with her husband. It portrays the two couples' passion for their...

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...1 in the U.K. with $2.8 million from 537 sites. Sony's "Julie & Julia" with Meryl Streep as French cooking guru Julia Child opened No. 7 in France with $1 million lured from 274 screens. Overall, the weekend take was $2.2 million from...

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...on a blog. The film alternates between Child's life with her husband in France and, 50 years later, Powell's life in a New York apartment with her husband, portraying the couples' shared passion for their spouses and for food. "When you...

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...Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." The film opens Aug. 7, and while we can't vouch for its deliciousness, we can guarantee that you'll leave wanting a taste of France. But who in Indy parlezvous the Francaise? Try these:

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...from France and translate them to suit American tastes" says Ortiz. The movie Julie and Julia stars Meryl Streep as the youthful Julia discovering France with her husband. Woven into the movie s plot is the true-life story of "Julie" a...

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..."Julie & Julia," I was joining the herd. The movie is a box office success. It chronicles Julia Child's efforts while living in France to get "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" published in 1961 and also the attempts of Julie Powell,...

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...and the writing of her seminal book. But by contrasting that memoir with Powell's, the movie somewhat distorts the life the Childs share as they revel in their love for la belle France and each other.... Adams' Julie is more of a lost soul.

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...and tribulations. Rajskub ("24") plays Powell's best friend, Helen. The film also covers Child's life in France in the 1940s and 1950s, based on her biography. Streep plays Child, and her "The Devil Wears Prada" co-star Stanley Tucci...

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What does Julia say? In 2002, more than half a century after Julia and her husband, Paul, arrived in France - a debarkation that provides the movie's opening scene - a young woman named Julie Powell decided to answer that question in the...

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