Eat Pray Love (2010)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 194
Fresh: 71 | Rotten: 123
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.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 24
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.
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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
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Julia Roberts
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James Franco
David Piccolo -
Javier Bardem
Felipe -
Richard Jenkins
Richard From Teas -
Billy Crudup
Stephen -
Viola Davis
Deila Shiraz -
Habi Subiyanto
Ketut Liyer -
Mike O'Malley
Andy Shiraz -
Tuva Novotny
Sofi -
Luca Argentero
Giovanni -
Giuseppe Gandini
Luca Spaghetti -
Andrea Di Stefano
Giulio -
Michael Cumpsty
Swami Dhavalachandra -
Sophie Thompson
Corella -
Rushita Singh
Tulsi -
Christine Hakim
Wayan Nuriasih -
Arlene Tur
Armenia -
David Lyons
Ian -
TJ Power
Leon -
I Gusti Ayu Puspawati
Nyomo -
A. Jay Radcliff
Andre -
Gita Reddy
The Guru -
Welker White
Andrea Sherwood -
Lucia Guzzardi
Landlady -
Silvano Rossi
Paolo the Barber -
Elena Arvigo
Maria -
Lydia Biondi
Ruffina -
Emma Brunetti
Paola -
Chiara Brunetti
Claudia -
Ritvik Tyagi
Madhu -
Micky Dhameejani
Rijul -
Anakia Lapae
Tutti -
Ashlie Atkinson
Bookstore Girl -
Lisa Roberts Gillan
Woman in Play -
Ryan O'Nan
Play Walk-Out -
Dwayne Clark
NYU Student Boyfriend -
Jennifer Kwok
NYU Student Girlfriend -
Mary Testa
Laundromat Gal -
Elijah Tucker
Chant Leader -
Karen Trindle
Chant Leader -
Zach Dunham
Chant Leader -
Ned Leavitt
Chant Leader -
Clair Oaks
Chant Leader -
Lynn Margileth
Chant Leader -
Roberto DiPalma
Large Man at Trattoria -
Ludovica Virga
Arguing Fruit Customer -
Marco Lastrucci
Arguing Fruit Customer -
Jose Ramon Rosario
Storage Building Guy -
Remo Remotti
Older Soccer Fan -
Vanessa Marini
Clothing Salesgirl -
Ajay Bhandari
Liz's Bag Holder -
Sd Pandey
Man in Temple -
Anand Yeshwant Bapat
Indian Shop Salesman -
Peter Davis
Disc Jockey -
Shona Benson
Sharon in Seva Office -
Dean Allan Tollhurst
Balinese Realtor -
Richard V. Vogt
Man in Restaurant
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The film version is pure wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Top CriticThe movie is aware of its own riches; it fills up your plate and dares you not to eat.
We're not so much involved in the movie as idly registering it -- eavesdropping, almost, on a conversation at an adjoining table.
The movie is completely aware of its own riches; it fills up your plate and dares you not to eat.
'Eat Pray Love': Me!
Try not to hoot when the gaunt Roberts makes a bring-on-the-flab speech to persuade the equally slender Tuva Novotny to eat pizza, even if they get "muffin tops."
Liz maybe the most unlikeable character Julia Roberts has ever had to play, not because co-writer/director Ryan Murphy is trying to make her so but because everything the film does pushes her in that direction.
A seemingly interminable romantic travelogue that feels as though it takes as long to watch as the year-long spiritual quest it depicts.
Julia's late career seems an apologia for buying someone else's husband and getting away with it, for the most part, in the court of public opinion.
During the India scenes, Liz accuses Richard from Texas of spouting a bunch of bumper-sticker slogans... as though her revelations are any better.
[Takes] itself too seriously, even while it contains all the trappings of one of the most lighthearted movie genres, the 'travel romance' or 'travel therapy' movie.
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Probably about the best you can expect from a 21st Century Cinderella with a book deal who had probably already optioned the rights to turn her story into a Hollywood bio-pic.
El mayor problema es el subrayado permanente de lo que suele llamarse "mensaje", eso que supuestamente el espectador debe descubrir en el transcurso de una película y llevarse al final para su casa y que aquí está servido como receta.
Merely good and not great as many fans of the book hoped it would be.
Eat Pray Love is a two hour and fifteen minute ad for being rich; it's a smug, patronising travelogue that -- despite its already apt title -- could have also been called First World Problems: The Movie.
On the surface a beautiful film. But those looking for some hidden spiritual meaning be warned - Eat Pray Love doesn't go that deep.
It's as though the "phenomenon" of Eat Pray Love got away on itself and, rather than casting a self-deprecating, unknown actress who could embody 30-something middle-class angst, they chose the biggest, richest movie star of the lot.
Eat Pray Love ... [hits] its target demographic right between the eyes, but in the same way that a self-help book may appeal to thousands, it will never be great literature.
Narcissistic nonsense, styled within an inch of its life in the manner of food, fashion and travel magazines.
The fatal flaw of Eat Pray Love is that for a celebration of enlightenment through travel and the benefits of restorative calm, the end result is so hollow and artificial. Don't mistake entitlement for enlightenment.
A tiresome, humourless, lifeless, overlong dirge in which the lofty pretention to say something deep about the quest for self and the female condition all gets blown away by an insipid, off-the-shelf romantic-movie ending.
Audience Reviews for Eat Pray Love
Super Reviewer
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- Richard From Teas: Stop trying, surrender.
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- Felipe: Listen, balance, my darling, is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself.
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- Liz Gilbert: It won't last forever. Nothing does.
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Foreign Titles
- Eat, Pray, Love (DE)
- Mange, prie, aime (FR)
I didn't hate Liz, though, as others seem to. Not everyone has the same idea of a satisfying life. Yes, her husband was fine, but they were not suited. It doesn't make Liz a bad or shallow person because she recognised this and was honest instead of dragging it out and them both feeling miserable.
Some of the travel bits were enjoyable. The food in Italy looked delicious and I enjoyed her friendship with the young Indian girl.
Film had really lost me by the "love" part - I didn't buy Julia and Javier as a couple at all.