Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
There is a character who is said to skip out on work many times due to various health problems and others ridicule her for it and imply she is lying to get out of the work.
A mother is emotionally abusive to her adult daughter on the phone throughout the film, bringing her down and not really believing that she is going to succeed in anything.
The entire scene about lobsters is abusive in my opinion. Julie is distressed about having to kill the lobsters, which way is best is discussed, an ultimately plunging live lobsters into boiling water is shown and made light of. Animal lovers and sensitive people may have a hard time with this.
There is a skit of Julia child where she is cutting a chicken on tv and cuts off her finger and blood is shown squirting out. It lasts about 1 minute. I would say skip the scene when they’re watching tv and the Julia skit comes on.
The main character works at a call center dealing with the building of the 9/11 memorial. In the first twenty minutes of the movie we see her taking phone calls from family members who have been affected by 9/11.
No, but there are a lot of eating scenes. The main themes of this film are food and cooking. Someone mentions being worried about getting fat around 52:00.
there is a lot of making out (making out horizontal/on bed) and implied sex, but nothing explicit is shown. it was a little awkward to watch with my parents but not bad!