Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme.
Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends … until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
When Stanley Tucci (as Julia's husband, Paul Child) says to Julia, "you are the butter to my bread and the breath to my life," we can't help but melt like hot butter in one of Julia's omelet pans.