In the ten years since Julia Robert won her Oscar for Erin Brockovich she has put her leading lady status to one site to focus on motherhood.
So anticipation about her comeback movie, Eat Pray Love was high.
The long- waited film about a 40-something woman's midlife crisis came in second to Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables in it's opening weekend at the U.S box office, capturing 23.7 million, compared to 35 million.
The film directed by Ryan Murphy and based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best selling memoir and book-circle staple is tripped up by its own habit of lingering too long--on individual scenes, on individual points, On Robert's character's seemingly limitless well of self-pity, and on delivering its final message " I don't know how to be here,: Roberts' Liz whines to Franco.
There were high expectations for Eat Pray Love, made for approximately $60 million,-$20million more than another recent female-oriented, Julia & Julia.
The opening section of Eat Pray Love-before liz gets to the eating, praying, and loving-feels hurried and incomplete, Liz then decided to spent a year in Italy, India and Thailand. It almost feels like one of the film's massages is that people as beautiful as Julia Robert will never have trouble meeting people around the world. In Italy, She learn to embrace the passion of food and stops counting calories. Once again, this section is a bit underdeveloped, but the film started to work its way under my skin when Liz got to India and met a man named Richard (Richard Jenkins)
