Silkwood

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(1983)

Genre: Biography/Drama

Director: Mike Nichols

Writers: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen

Producers: Larry Cano, Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Mike Nichols, Tom Stovall, Joel Tuber

Synopsis: The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant. -- (Written by IMDb Editors)

Cast:

• Meryl Streep
• Kurt Russell
• Cher
• Craig T. Nelson
• Fred Ward
• Bruce McGill
• David Strathairn

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Sleepless in Seattle

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(1993)

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Director: Nora Ephron

Writers: Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, Jeff Arch

Producers: Jane Bartelme, Patrick Crowley, Delia Ephron, Gary Foster, Lynda Obst, James W. Skotchdopole

Synopsis: Sleepless in Seattle, the sophomore directorial effort from Nora Ephron, is a light romantic comedy inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember. Tom Hanks stars as widower and single father Sam. When Sam's son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), calls into a talk radio program looking for a new mother, Sam ends up getting on the phone and laments about his lost love. Thousands of miles away, Annie (Meg Ryan) hears the program and immediately falls in love with Sam, despite the fact that she has never met him and that she is engaged to humdrum Walter (Bill Pullman). Believing they are meant to be together, Annie sets out for Seattle to meet Sam, who, meanwhile, contends with an onslaught of letters from available women equally touched by his phone call. Rosie O'Donnell, Rita Wilson, and Rob Reiner also star. (Written by Matthew Tobey)

Cast:

• Tom Hanks
• Meg Ryan
• Rita Wilson
• Victor Garber
• Bill Pullman

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Julie & Julia (jhunterfilmreview)

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(2009)

Genre: Biography/Drama/Comedy

Director: Nora Ephron

Writer: Nora Ephron, Julie Powell, Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme

Synopsis: 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. (Written by Columbia Pictures)

Cast:

• Meryl Streep
• Amy Adams
• Stanley Tucci
• Jane Lynch

 

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jhunterfilmreview: Julie & Julia is based on Julie Powell's Blog which was later published as the novel Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, as well as Julia Child's novel My Life in France. After watching the film for a second time, I really came to appreciate almost every aspect of it - the acting especially. I'm going to start with Meryl Streep - I think she's absolutely superb as Julia Child, however, looking through several Julia Child YouTube videos and comparing the voices, it can be seen that Streep exaggerates the character slightly. I sense that the exaggeration of Child's fluting voice could be rather annoying for some viewers, but for myself and others, it does quite the opposite - it is quite amusing and brings out a few laughs. Adams' performance is also quite good, but certainly not award-worthy. Streep and Adams are book-ended by two excellent supporting roles by Tucci and Messina, who really compliment these iconic female characters. What I also like, is the way the film uses original quotes from Child's television shows and Powell's original blog, to ensure that the characters are portrayed true to their form. Something in this film that was really entertaining for me was seeing the depiction of Child's life in Paris, and the hilarious scenes of her working up the ladder of the cooking world.

I give this film 7 stars.