Eat, Pray, Love (2010)

Genre: Romantic Comedy / Drama

Directed by: Ryan Murphy

Cast: Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, Richard Jenkins

Running time: 140 minutes

Recently divorced and feeling empty within a new relationship, Elizabeth Gilbert, portrayed by Julia Roberts, decides to take a year-long trip to Italy, India and Indonesia to find herself. This 2010 film is based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoirs, published in 2006.

Eat, Pray, Love (the movie) is very beautiful to look at. The scenery is often quite majestic. The eating part of the deal, in Italy, was very inviting, considering I am crazy about Italian food. Unfortunately, the rest of it did not resonate with me in any way.

Julia Roberts was pretty good in her role, and so was Richard Jenkins, but this film was painfully long and there was not enough substance to keep my interest. The story plodded along and felt as empty as the life that inspired the main character to go on that trip. A movie about the search for self through travels could have been pure magic, but it was not so in this case. What we got was a dragged out affair of emptiness and boredom.

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