Movie Notes: The Deer Hunter
Synopsis
In a small Pennsylvania town, just-married Steven (John Savage) leaves for Vietnam with friends Michael (Robert De Niro) and Nick (Christopher Walken).
Movie Notes: Doubt
Synopsis
Set in 1965, sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) suspects the worst about Father Flynn’s (Philip Seymour Hoffman) relationship to a young student at a Bronx Catholic high school.
Movie Notes: It’s Complicated
Synopsis
Successful divorcee Jane (Meryl Streep) inadvertently winds up in an affair with her re-married ex-husband, Jake (Alec Baldwin).
Movie Notes: Julie & Julia
Synopsis
Bored with her day job, Julie Powell (Amy Adams) starts a blog (which still exists) documenting her experience cooking every recipe in Julia Child’s cook book Mastering The Art Of French Cooking. The film also shows how Julia Child (Meryl Streep) began writing said cookbook while living in Paris.
Movie Notes: The Hours
Synopsis
Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) writes the book Mrs. Dalloway, and its repercussions are felt across two generations, a depressed housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) and a stressed out mother Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) whose former lover is dying of AIDS.