Julie & Julia is an upcoming film written and directed by Nora Ephron and adapted from the memoir Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell. Amy Adams stars as Powell and Meryl Streep portrays famous chef Julia Child. It is scheduled for an August 7, 2009 release.
Plot: A frustrated temp secretary (Amy Adams) embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. The film also covers the years Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) spent in Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, when he was a foreign diplomat who was eventually investigated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy for alleged communist ties.
Cast
* Amy Adams as Julie Powell
* Meryl Streep as Julia Child
* Stanley Tucci as Paul Child, Julia Child’s husband
* Chris Messina as Eric Powell, Julie Powell’s husband
* Jane Lynch as Julia Child’s sister
* Mary Lynn Rajskub as Helen, Powell’s best friend
