TWO WOMEN REVIEW Eat Love Pray
© A.J. Malouin 2010
(2010/USA. Directed by Ryan Murphy.)
[Annie of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is our main correspondent in our sister organization, the Oklahoma Movie Alliance. While sailboat cruising back from Midway Island to Oahu, Annie sent this brief review on her iphone. Patsy, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, is a Frequent Winner of the annual “A.J. Malouin’s Chocolate Oscar Guess Fest.” Generally, the comments we’re getting on “Eat Love Pray” are running three-to-one along the lines of “vaguely disappointing.” Send your comments to <50films@malouin.us > and we’ll publish them here. —Ed.]
A better title might have been “Blink, Yawn, Doze”. Please give me a break! There is not a man, except maybe one, who I would spend more than two days crying over, much less a year trying to get over. Depression, your money would be better spent on a psychiatrist. Maybe, just maybe a year on a boat with James Franco would have been much more interesting than 2.5 hours in a theater watching it. But, I doubt it. Robert’s simultaneously the best and worst choice to star in “Eat Love Pray,” in which a self-conscious actress plays one woman’s year of dedicated self-absorption, she would have gotten better, faster if she had spent a year in service to others. What a waste of time and money. Whatever happened to “I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman?” —-Annie
I liked Eat Love Pray…..not the best movie I’ve ever seen and maybe
unrealistic, but it was thought provoking and relevant for many of us
“girls.” — Patsy
“Eat Love Pray” stars Julia Roberts as Liz Gilbert, I. Gusti Ayu Puspawati as Nyomo, Hadi Subiyanto as Ketut Liyer, Billy Crudup as Stephen, Viola Davis as Delia Shiraz, A. Jay Radcliff as Andre, Mike O’Malley as Andy Shiraz, Ashlie Atkinson as the Bookstore Girl, James Franco as David Piccolo, Lisa Roberts Gillan as the Woman in Play, Ryan O’Nan as the Play Walk-Out, Gita Reddy as The Guru, Dwayne Clark as a NYU Student Boyfriend, Jen Kwok as NYU Student Girlfriend (as Jennifer Kwok,) and Mary Testa as the Laundromat Gal. It running time is 2 hours and 13 minutes. It is in English, and is rated PG-13 (on appeal) for brief strong language, some sexual references, and male rear nudity.