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Eat Pray Love

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Ryan Murphy

Directed by: Ryan Murphy

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 13, 2010

Running Time: 133 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 on appeal for brief strong language, some sexual references and male rear nudity

Starring Julia Roberts, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, Billy Crudup, and Richard Jenkins

Liz Gilbert is a modern woman on a quest to marvel at and travel the world while rediscovering and reconnecting with her true inner self in Eat Pray Love. At a crossroads after a divorce, Gilbert takes a year-long sabbatical from her job and steps uncharacteristically out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life. In her wondrous and exotic travels, she experiences the simple pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of love in Bali. Based on an inspiring true story, Eat Pray Love proves that there really is more than one way to let yourself go and see the world. (Sony Pictures)

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75

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

Eat Pray Love is like one of those rich dishes Liz consumes in Italy; robustly flavored and guiltily pleasurable.

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75

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

The film is far from perfect, but it's likely to inspire more than few quests for balance -- or at least a fabulous bowl of linguine.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Is it a romantic comedy? Is it a chick flick? This is silly, since, in truth, it’s neither. It’s simply a Julia Roberts movie, often a lovely one.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

It is 140 minutes long and repetitious beyond belief. Yet for all its weaknesses - unconscious contradictions, travelogue simplicity and mix-and-match spirituality - Eat Pray Love is, like its central character, on a genuine quest.

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75

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

Eat Pray Love works quite serviceably as a light comedy and a pleasing travelogue.

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70

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

If there is one constant in Eat Pray Love, the imperfect yet beautifully rendered adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir on a year of heartbreak and healing starring Julia Roberts — it is this: There will be tears.

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70

The New York Times A.O. Scott

The film offers an easygoing and generous blend of wish fulfillment, vicarious luxury, wry humor and spiritual uplift, with a star, Julia Roberts, who elicits both envy and empathy.

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63

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Gail Pennington

The word that sums up the essence of this movie is "frustrating."

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63

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

I've got a fourth verb to add to the comma-challenged title of Julia Roberts' how-to-be-happy travelogue, Eat Pray Love. How about "edit"?

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63

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

It lacks the resonances of Gilbert's book.

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63

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Eat Pray Love finally settles into its own cinematic destiny as an attractive escapist love story, in which the romance is more with the I than with the guy.

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63

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

Eat Pray Love isn’t a bad movie -- just a spiritually dead one, wearing and wearying.

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60

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Director Ryan Murphy achieved a major casting coup in landing Julia Roberts to play Gilbert - or Liz, as she's called here. As it turns out, though, a lesser star may have been a better choice.

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60

Boxoffice Magazine Sara Maria Vizcarrondo

The film knows the aesthetic of enlightenment, the filmmakers demonstrate adoration for their subject, but whether or not the film grasps the principle further is very arguable.

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58

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

If only Roberts' warmth, coupled with Javier Bardem's scruffy sexiness as Felipe, were enough to compensate for the folded-map flatness of this production.

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58

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

Trouble is, most of the major changes took place inside her head and heart, which makes her story a natural fit for a book, but an awkward one for a film.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Shameless wish-fulfillment, a Harlequin novel crossed with a mystic travelogue, and it mercifully reverses the life chronology of many people, which is Love Pray Eat.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

The very elements of Eat Pray Love that helped make it a success in 40 languages -- the breezy prose, the relentless sorting-through of dissatisfactions, a steady stream of intriguing sights -- turn the film into a travelogue with a little spiritual questing on the side.

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50

Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall

How can a romantic drama tailor-made for Julia Roberts from Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir about self-actualization--shot against alluring locales in Italy, India, and Bali, and directed by the acclaimed Ryan Murphy (TV's Nip/Tuck and Glee)--go so ass-numbingly wrong?

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50

Time Mary Pols

Now that Eat, Pray, Love had lost its commas and become a movie actually starring Julia Roberts, I was no longer annoyed by how much it seemed like one; it had assumed its rightful place in the entertainment universe.

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50

USA Today Claudia Puig

The whole journey feels like a rich girl gone slumming. And for those of us along for the ride, it's a bit of a slog.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The film never ventures, even once, into a situation that does not reek of comfy familiarity.

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50

Variety Justin Chang

Director Ryan Murphy's superficial take on Elizabeth Gilbert's phenomenally successful memoir is an exotic junk-food buffet that offers few lasting pleasures or surprises, let alone epiphanies.

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50

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Roberts, wearing that beatific half-smile of hers that suggests inner peace and wisdom before she's even begun her journey, is too open-faced with her emotions to signal the complexities of Gilbert's distress – over her divorce, her control issues, her rootlessness, and inability to live in the moment.

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50

LA Weekly Karina Longworth

Though targeted to the same female filmgoers who flocked to the self-realization via food porn of "Julie & Julia," EPL is a comparative downer, letting viewers experience the rush of self-improvement without having to do any of the work. I cried. Mission accomplished?

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50

Arizona Republic Andy Cordova

The general dippiness isn't helped by the dialogue: "Every word in Italian is like a truffle!" Gilbert exclaims as she learns the language. Equally annoying is the gauzy lighting, which gives Roberts a sweetly angelic glow most of the time.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

Running more than two hours – a very long time for an adaptation of a book without a plot – Eat Pray Love is like an overstuffed lightweight suitcase, with little room for us to feel the emotional connections Liz makes with new friends along the way.

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50

NPR Scott Tobias

Though Eat Pray Love never loses the sour whiff of unexamined first-world privilege, its heroine does at least immerse herself in different cultures rather than expecting them to adapt to her.

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50

Christian Science Monitor Andy Klein

What with the title and pedigree, no one would expect Eat Pray Love to be filled with thrilling action. But the word “movie” does imply movement, and almost nothing ever happens throughout the protracted two hours and 20 minutes.

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40

Slate Dana Stevens

In short, Elizabeth Gilbert is the Julia Roberts of writers, which means that the film adaptation by Ryan Murphy (the creator of Nip/Tuck and Glee) got at least one thing right.

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40

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

A minor and superficial summer diversion that offers female viewers not much more than a two-hour escape fantasy, but that's not a crime.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A very shallow, very glossy 2½-hour travelogue starring a miscast Julia Roberts as a spoiled, self-centered divorcée who decides to get away from it all.

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38

ReelViews James Berardinelli

A muddle of a film - an overlong bore that either mistakenly thinks it's something more than a humdrum romance or has incorporated a variety of pretentions as window-dressing.

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30

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Still, Eat Pray Love preaches a sermon it doesn't practice—the need to open one's self to the world. In a pictorial sense this is exactly what Liz does; she vacuums up the transformative essence of three continents. Yet the world gets weirdly short shrift because this transcendently narcissistic movie is, in a narrative sense, almost entirely about Liz and the movie star who plays her.

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25

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The movie left me with the feeling of being trapped with a person of privilege who won't stop with the whine whine whine.

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