Julie & Julia
Dir. Nora Ephron · · 123 min · 9/3/2009
Meryl Streep plays Julia Child discovering her vocation in her fifties, intercut with a younger woman’s present-day cooking project. Why it’s here: Streep’s Julia is the over-fifty figure and the heart of the film — a joyful study of late-blooming creative reinvention (the parallel modern strand follows a younger character).
