Published: June 22, 2009 07:00 am      

'Julie and Julia' at film festival

TRAVERSE CITY -- The Traverse City Film Festival will host the Midwest premiere of "Julie and Julia," starring Amy Adams and Meryl Streep, as its closing night movie Aug. 2.

The film is an adaptation of two best-selling memoirs -- Julie Powell's "Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen," and Julia Child's "My Life in France," written with her grandnephew, Alex Prud'homme.

Adams plays Powell, a New York writer who blogs about her attempt to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." Streep plays Child during a sojourn in France in 1949 and the two stories intertwine in the movie.

The full festival schedule will be released July 2. For more information, go to www.traversecityfilmffestival.org.