eat pray love

Elizabeth Gilbert (Julia Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having a husband (Billy Crudup), a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.

 In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.

Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert
Javier Bardem as Felipe, a man Gilbert falls in love with on her journey.
Billy Crudup as Steven, Gilbert's former husband.
Richard Jenkins as Richard, a Texan whom Gilbert befriends at an Indian ashram.
Viola Davis as Delia Shiraz, Gilbert's best friend.
James Franco as David
Sophie Thompson as Corella
Mike O'Malley as Andy Shiraz, Delia's husband.

Christine Hakim as Wayan, Gilbert's best friend in Bali.
Hadi Subiyanto as Ketut Liyer, Gilbert's advisor in Bali.
Tuva Novotny as Sofi, Gilbert's best friend in Rome.
Luca Argentero as Giovanni
Giuseppe Gandini as Luca Spaghetti
Rushita Singh as Tulsi, Gilbert's best friend at the Indian ashram.
Anakia Lapae as Tuti, Wayan's daughter.
Arlene Tur as Armenia, Wayan's best friend.
Dean Allan Tolhurst as Bali Realtor
David Lyons as Ian, the Skinny-Dipper

The song "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence and the Machine is featured on the advertisements for the film, as well as "Sweet Disposition" by The Temper Trap and "Good Life" by OneRepublic.

Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder has recorded a new song, "Better Days", which appeared on the soundtrack.[8] Dario Marianelli composed the original score. The Aphex Twin song "Parallel Stripes" appears in the film.

 

The film debuted at #2 behind The Expendables with $23,104,523. It had the highest debut at the box office with Roberts in a lead role since America's Sweethearts in 2001. In its initial ten-day run, it increased its revenue to a total of $47.2 million.Competing film The Expendables features Eric Roberts, Julia Roberts' brother, and the box office pitted Roberts versus Roberts. Hollywood.com commented that "sibling rivalry is rarely as publicly manifested" as this.
Based on 178 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an overall approval rating of 37% Its consensus states "The scenery is nice to look at, and Julia Roberts is as luminous as ever, but without the spiritual and emotional weight of the book that inspired it, Eat Pray Love is too shallow to resonate." Another review aggretate, Metacritic, which creates a normalized score incorporating multiple reviews, calculated an average score of 50 based on 38 reviews.

Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe gave the film 3 out of 4 stars while writing "Is it a romantic comedy? Is it a chick flick? This is silly, since, in truth, it’s neither. It’s simply a Julia Roberts movie, often a lovely one."San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle overall positively reviewed the film and praised Ryan Murphy's "sensitive and tasteful direction" as it "finds way to illuminate and amplify Gilbert's thoughts and emotions, which are central to the story".
Negative reviews appeared in Chicago Reader, in which Andrea Gronvall commented that the film is "ass-numbingly wrong",

and Rolling Stone, in which Peter Travers referred to watching it as "being trapped with a person of privilege who won't stop with the whine whine whine." Pop culture website Somethingawful.com ran a scathing review. Martin R. "Vargo" Schneider highlighted several aspects of the film that he considered completely unrealistic. Political columnist Maureen Dowd termed the movie "navel-gazing drivel" in October, 2010.

In The Huffington Post, critic Jenna Busch wrote:

Eat Pray Love is ultimately charming and inspirational. Though it doesn't have quite the impact of the book, it will likely leave you pondering your life choices and forgiving your flaws. It will certainly have you forgiving the few flaws in the film. The performances are just too fantastic, the vistas too lovely to pay too much attention to anything else.
In the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, journalist Curzio Maltese wrote:

"It begins when the object of your affection ……bestows upon you a heady hellucinogenic dose ……of something you've never even dared to admit you wanted…… an emotional speed-ball of thunderous love and excitement.Soon you start craving that attention with the hungry obsesion …… of any junkie.When it's withheld,you turn sick;crazy,not to mention resentful.……of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place……but now refuses to pony up the good stuff. Goddamn him,and he used to give it to you for free.Next stage finds you skinny,shaking in a cornet……certain only that you'd sell your soul……just to have that one thing one more time.……the object of your adoration is now repulsed by you.You dont't always make me miserable .There's a comfor.He looks at you like someone he's enver met before.The irony is you can hardly blame him,I mean,check yourself out.You're a mess.Unrecognizable even to your own eyes.You have now reached infatuation's final edstination.The complete and merciless devaluation of self."——Elizabeth Gilbert

"Send him some light and love every time you think of him, then drop it. You kno, if you could clear out all that space in your mind, that you are using to obsess over this guy, and your failed marriage, you'd have a vacuum with a doorway. And you know what the universe would do with that doorway? Rush in! God would rush in! Fill you with more love than you ever dreamed of."——Richard

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8.^ "New Eddie Vedder track, Better Days to be on Eat Pray Love Soundtrack". pearljam.com. http://pearljam.com/news/new-eddie-vedder-track-better-days-be-eat-pray-love-soundtrack. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
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