A frustrated temp secretary embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. The film also covers the years Julia Child and her husband Paul spent in Paris during the 1940s and 1950s, when he was a foreign diplomat who was eventually investigated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy for alleged communist ties.
Cast:
- Meryl Streep - Julia Child
- Amy Adams - Julie Powell
- Stanley Tucci - Paul Child
- Chris Messina - Eric Powell
- Linda Emond - Simone Beck
- Helen Carey - Louisette Bertholle
- Mary Lynn Rajskub - Sarah
- Jane Lynch - Dorothy McWilliams
- Joan Juliet Buck - Madame Brassart
- Crystal Noelle - Ernestine
- George Bartenieff - Chef Max Bugnard
- Vanessa Ferlito - Cassie
- Casey Wilson - Regina
- Jillian Bach - Annabelle
- Andrew Garman - John O'Brien