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Eat Pray Love (movie)

40 Ratings: 3.3
A movie directed by Ryan Murphy

A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in director Ryan Murphy's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Gilbert was a woman who … see full wiki

Director: Ryan Murphy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release Date: August 13, 2010
MPAA Rating: PG-13
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review by . August 21, 2010
posted in Movie Hype
Eat Pray Love is a visual spectacle of a movie based on the best selling book.  Director Ryan Murphy takes movie goers to a trip to three beautiful locales in the film.  Julia Roberts stars as New York writer Elizabeth Gilbert.  She spends one year of her life living in Italy, India and Bali.  She is on a mission to find happiness after getting a divorce from her husband Stephen.  He played by Billy Crudup.      Julia Roberts inhabits …
review by . August 14, 2010
posted in Movie Hype
Isn't it nice to have the time, the resources, and the money to be able to travel the world and rediscover life, love, and spirituality? We should all be as lucky as Elizabeth Gilbert. Her memoir, "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia," has sold millions, been on the "New York Times" Best Seller list for 158 weeks, and touched the lives of thousands. One of them was Oprah Winfrey, who devoted two whole episodes of her show to the book. I admit that …
review by . August 21, 2010
ZZZzzz...
Liz is unhappy.  And that takes some doing, considering she has a handsome husband, an exciting job as a writer, and plenty of money.  But feeling bored and unfulfilled, she leaves her husband to eat, pray, and love her way around the world, spending time in Italy, India, and Bali.    I couldn't relate to Liz (Julia Roberts) at all.  She was miserable having a life most people dream about.  Her search for "balance" consisted of a series of love …
review by . April 13, 2011
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
   I've not read the wildly popular memoir so I can't compare the movie to Elizabeth Gilbert's book.      The film finds Liz, Julia Roberts, in a crisis of self. As in she doesn't know who she is -- she lives as an extension of of the man in her life and is dissatisfied. She receives a prophecy about her life and marriage. This prophecy winds its way under her skin and she festers with discontent.      What results is a slow discovery …
Quick Tip by . April 21, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
Normally I loathe films based on "an inspirational true story", nor do I consider myself a Julia Roberts fan, and I typically don't care for romantic comedies... so, I'm asking myself why I kind of liked this. Perhaps it was the exotic locales depicted in the film (Italy, India, and Bali), or perhaps it was the combination of dialogue about food and meditation, or perhaps I'm just turning into a pathetic softie and losing all sense of objectivity in my evaluation of movies. …
review by . August 27, 2010
posted in Movie Hype
Whether or not "Eat, Pray, Love" adequately represents the bestselling memoir of the same name (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia) by author Liz Gilbert or not doesn't really matter. Is it the fault of the filmmaker or the writer when the piece attempts to hit the side-of-the-barn of greater meaning and just barely skims the surface?    "Eat, Pray, Love: the Phenomenon" recounts the year long journey of writer Liz Gilbert as …
review by . November 15, 2010
On paper maybe this movie seems like a better idea. After all it did spend over 155 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. It is fantasy gone right and maybe that is the appeal of the story, we get to live out our desires through another. Bag that, I'd rather go on the trip myself.      Eat, Pray, Love is about Liz Glibert, who for no explicable reason other than not wanting to make cookies, decides to end her marriage. In order to find her balance she goes on a trip …
Quick Tip by . January 03, 2011
Just as annoying as the book - even Julia Roberts couldn't save this story from feeling like we're hearing the self indulgent ramblings of an over-privileged woman with some "rich people problems". Blech.
Quick Tip by . August 17, 2010
Hated the book, but JR is a favorite, so I'll probably see this when it comes to Netflix.
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