What happens when you give a secretary a cookbook and she decides to cook five hundred twenty four French recipes in a year? You get a movie called Julie and Julia, featuring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep. When Julie Powell, a frustrated secretary, sets out to completely run through her copy of Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year's time, documenting her experiences along the way, she'll find that sometimes there's more to cooking than a grocery list and some pots and pans.
Using flashbacks from a statement recorded late in life and archival footage for atmosphere, this film traces Harvey Milk's career from his 40th birthday to his death. He leaves the closet and New York, opens a camera shop that becomes the salon for San Francisco's growing gay community, and organizes gays' purchasing power to build political alliances. He runs for office with lover Scott Smith as his campaign manager. Victory finally comes on the same day Dan White wins in the city's conservative district. The rest of the film sketches Milk's relationship with White and the 1978 fight against a statewide initiative to bar gays and their supporters from public school jobs.
Movie Information: Genre: Biography, drama, romance MPAA: R Runtime: 128 minutes Release: January 2009