Julie and Julia (2009)

This picture's graphic cooking and devouring compete for the audience who normally gorge on gratuitous violence and bathroom humour, the staples of the purple screen. Meryl Streep's mannerisms are overdone; her character is hollow---even though based on a true story. One of the film's theses---that it does not matter who people are, it only matters who one thinks they are---accentuates the positive, but exposes one to the risk of drawing fallacious lessons from others' behaviour.