History Film / JulieAndJulia

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Louisette is less a villain than a minor hinderance, but the film paints her in a very bad light, implying that she did far less work on the cookbook than the other two. This was entirely invented for the film. Louisette Bertholle was going through a nasty divorce in the middle of writing and her ability to contribute suffered because of it, but there's no indication that Julia or Simone held this against her or confronted her over it.

The other story is about Julia Child herself (played by the great Creator/MerylStreep) and how she came to (help) write that cookbook and become a great cook. We meet her in the beginning of the film in the late 1940s, when she moves to Paris. She is the life of the party, so exuberant that most people love her despite her impropriety, which is good because she is married to a diplomat. Since the wives of diplomats are rarely required to do anything, Julia knows she needs to do something to keep from going crazy. After unsuccessful (as in unenjoyable) attempts at hatmaking and learning to play bridge, she decides to take a cooking class at Le Cordon Bleu. On determining that she already knows what the cooking course is attempting to teach her, she asks the woman running the place (one of the few people who dislike her, and the feeling becomes mutual) if there is anything more advanced. There is--the course for professional chefs. So Julia takes that one and loves it...

* LovingAShadow: In the platonic sense.

* RedScare: This ends up causing problems for Paul and Julia.

* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Julia is 6'2"; Paul is around 5'8". Also, [[spoiler:Julia's sister Dorothy and her future husband.]]

* UglyGuyHotWife: When Julia's sister comes to visit, Julia intends on setting her up with a tall, dark and handsome colleague of her husband. Instead, the sister is seen getting flirty with a short, smarmy-looking friend of theirs who makes her laugh. [[spoiler:They eventually marry and have a family]].

* VitriolicBestBuds: Julia and Simca, who ultimately parted ways over ''Mastering'' volume 3 (which was eventually published as ''Simca's Cuisine'', without Julia's collaboration). They did remain friends but never collaborated again.

** Eric is nothing but kind and supportive of Julie, giving encouragement and actively helping her-- and then it gets not so much subverted as shown to be the top layer of his HiddenDepths when Julie's efforts to complete the challenge make her obsessed with her blog, and Eric refuses to be an ExtremeDoormat as it consumes their relationship. He draws the line after a fight asking that she not talk about the fight in her blog and storms out. Julie sincerely calling him "a saint" becomes a sore spot, as he feels it invalidates his concerns and negative feelings. Part of their reconciliation involves her substituting "saint" when he helps her for "horrible, and difficult to live with".

* HappilyMarried: Julia and Paul, very much so despite never being able to have children. Julie and Eric... yes and no (see FunnyAneurysmMoment under the YMMV tag).

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* ASimplePlan

* AdaptationalVillainy: Louisette is less a villain than a minor hinderance, but the film paints her in a very bad light, implying that she did far less work on the cookbook than the other two. This was entirely invented for the film. Louisette Bertholle was going through a nasty divorce in the middle of writing and her ability to contribute suffered because of it, but there's no indication that Julia or Simone held this against her or confronted her over it.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Paul and Julia are walking through a park where they pass a couple pushing a baby carriage - Julia watches them sadly and Paul pats her hand tenderly. See HappilyMarried below.

One story is about Julie Powell (played by Creator/AmyAdams). Julie is a government worker and unsuccessful writer who has just moved from Brooklyn to a depressing part of Queens for a larger apartment (relatively speaking) and to be closer to her husband's place of work. Her work is depressing -- the year is 2002, and she is dealing with a lot of calls related to the 9/11 attacks. When she learns that one of her friends, who she considers vapid, is writing a blog, she decides to write one herself. She and her husband discuss what it should be about, because it is supposed to be a distraction from her depressing life. They finally decide it should be about cooking. She has a copy of Creator/JuliaChild's cookbook ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' and so she decides to cook every recipe in it in one year (please note that there are [[{{Doorstopper}} over five hundred recipes]] included in it). This, even though she has a husband, a job, and a cat, and is only home in the late evening, quickly becomes an obsession.

One story is about Julie Powell (played by Creator/AmyAdams). Julie is a government worker and unsuccessful writer who has just moved from Brooklyn to a depressing part of Queens for a larger apartment (relatively speaking) and to be closer to her husband's place of work. Her work is depressing -- the year is 2002, and she is dealing with a lot of calls related to 9/11. When she learns that one of her friends, one she considers vapid, is writing a blog, she wants to write one herself. She and her husband discuss what it should be about, because it is supposed to be a distraction from her depressing life. They finally decide it should be about cooking. She has a copy of Creator/JuliaChild's cookbook ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' and so she decides to cook every recipe in it in one year (please note that there are [[{{Doorstopper}} over five hundred recipes]] included in it). This, even though she has a husband, a job, and a cat, and is only home in the late evening, quickly becomes an obsession.