julie and julia

half of this movie is very good, and the other half isnt. the story follows a woman who is at her wits end and decides to go through in one year the entire cookbook that julia child wrote. on the flip side, we follow julia child as she goes through the struggles of getting the cook book written in the first place all those years ago. meryl streep plays julia child as a larger than life woman who loved life and loved food so much that her passion for it exploded at any given moment! amy adams, on the other hand, has to play the part of a whiney self centered woman that we, the audience, can barely tolerate. if this movie would have been all about here, it would have been almost completely unwatchable. meryl streep turns this from terrible to passable.