Eat Pray Love (2010)

"All of the performances are knockouts, especially The Visitor's Richard Jenkins as a damaged Texas spiritualist who steeps the movie in intimacy.  Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
"Eat Pray Love works quite serviceably as a light comedy and a pleasing travelogue.  Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline.com

Editor's Note A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) was a woman who had it all -- a loving husband, a great career, and a weekend home -- but sometimes one realizes too little too late that they haven't gotten what they truly wanted from life. On the heels of a painful divorce, the woman who had previously looked forward to a contented life of domestic bliss sets out to seek her true destiny by traveling first to Italy, where she learns to appreciate nourishment; then to India, where she discovers the power of prayer; and finally to Bali, where she unexpectedly finds the meaning of true love.

	James Franco
	Javier Bardem
	Richard Jenkins
	Julia Roberts
	Billy Crudup
	Andrea Di Stefano - Co-Star
	Tuva Novotny - Co-Star
	Mike O'Malley - Co-Star
	Jose Ramon Rosario - Co-Star
	Lucia Guzzardi - Co-Star
	Lisa Roberts Gillan - Co-Star
	Mary Testa - Co-Star
	Sophie Thompson - Co-Star
	Welker White - Co-Star
	Christine Hakim - Co-Star
	Remo Remotti - Co-Star
	Michael Cumpsty - Co-Star
	Ryan Murphy - Screenwriter
	Andrew Baseman - Set Decorator
	Elizabeth Gilbert - Source Writer
	Scott Robertson - Assistant Director
	Alessandro Bertolazzi - Makeup
	Ockam's Razor - Visual Effects Designer
	Beau Studios - Visual Effects Designer
	Jennifer Salt - Screenwriter
	Richard Dean - Makeup
	Lyn Pinezich - Production Manager/UPM
	Robert Richardson - Director of Photography
	Stanley J. Wlodkowski - Production Manager/UPM
	Jeff Habberstad - Stunt Coordinator
	Dario Marianelli - Composer
	Michael Minkler - Sound Re-Recording
	Lyndell Quiyou - Hairstylist
	P.J. Bloom - Music Director
	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon - 2nd Unit Director
	Tony Lamberti - Sound Re-Recording
	Viola Davis - Co-Star
	Giuseppe Gandini - Co-Star
	Elena Arvigo - Co-Star
	Ashlie Atkinson - Co-Star
	Luca Argentero - Co-Star
	Lydia Biondi - Co-Star
	Arlene Tur - Co-Star
	Ryan O'Nan - Co-Star
	David Lyons - Co-Star
	Peter Davis - Co-Star
	Habi Subiyanto - Co-Star
	Rushita Singh - Co-Star
	TJ Power - Co-Star
	I Gusti Ayu Puspawati - Co-Star
	A. Jay Radcliff - Co-Star
	Gita Reddy - Co-Star
	Silvano Rossi - Co-Star
	Emma Brunetti - Co-Star
	Chiara Brunetti - Co-Star
	Ritvik Tyagi - Co-Star
	Micky Dhameejani - Co-Star
	Anakia Lapae - Co-Star
	Dwayne Clark - Co-Star
	Jennifer Kwok - Co-Star
	Elijah Tucker - Co-Star
	Karen Trindle - Co-Star
	Zach Dunham - Co-Star
	Clair Oaks - Co-Star
	Ned Leavitt - Co-Star
	Lynn Margileth - Co-Star
	Roberto DiPalma - Co-Star
	Ludovica Virga - Co-Star
	Marco Lastrucci - Co-Star
	Vanessa Marini - Co-Star
	Ajay Bhandari - Co-Star
	Sd Pandey - Co-Star
	Anand Yeshwant Bapat - Co-Star
	Shona Benson - Co-Star
	Dean Allan Tollhurst - Co-Star
	Richard V. Vogt - Co-Star
	Ryan Murphy - Director

Los Angeles Times
3 stars out of 5 -- "[B]eautifully rendered....The movies creates space and a place for Roberts to give into wave after wave of feelings as she moves through resentment, guilt, regret, forgiveness, joy and hope to change her life." 08/13/2010

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "EAT PRAY LOVE is a merging of diary and travelogue to explore, in romantic and glowy gestures, one woman's process of rebirt....A great comeback for Julia Roberts..." 08/12/2010

Movieline
"EAT PRAY LOVE has been made with some thought and care; the script, in particular, adapted by Murphy and Jennifer Salt, faithfully captures the easy-going rhythms and self-effacing good humor of Gilbert's prose." 08/13/2010

San Francisco Chronicle 7 of 10
Julia Roberts spends a lot of time meditating in Eat Pray Love, and at a certain point the movie replicates the effects of meditation within the audience. About two-thirds into the film - probably during one of the hundred or so times someone tells our heroine that she should open up to love - my mind shut off. When it switched back on a minute later, I didn't know the day or time, or where I was or what movie was onscreen. Eat Pray Love had induced a state of pure, undifferentiated being...This experience, unique in a lifetime of moviegoing, says something about the numbing quality of Eat Pray Love at its worst. 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. It's about something important, the search for meaning and happiness, about finding one's inner life amid the clutter and confusion of modern existence...Eat Pray Love has three challenges it never completely overcomes. The first is that leaving Rome is never a good idea. The second is that much of the movie is about the spirit, but you can't make drama out of someone meditating. The third is that, for all its length and ambition, the film's spiritual insight is superficial. Liz's journey toward self-acceptance arguably borders on solipsism. Perhaps not accepting herself might have been a more enlightened first step...For all these reasons, the India section sags woefully. But then, things pick up in Bali, with the arrival of Javier Bardem, who's just more manly and elemental than Franco and Crudup, definitely more suited to Roberts, who looks like she could eat those other guys alive. "Pray" is rough going, ideal for a bathroom break or a soul-renewing trance. But "Eat" and "Love" are cinema friendly. - Mick LaSalle