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Eat Pray Love: Or, How Julia Roberts Spent Her Summer Vacation

So I know I’m the first girl-blogger on Shooting the Script, and I wish that I were reviewing something like Iron Rage 4: Return of the Testosterone King, but I’m here to get straight stereotypical. I just saw Eat Pray Love. Consider yourself warned.

A little background: EPL was originally a book. A true, inspiring tale of self-discovery that took the world by storm. And by “the world,” of course, I mean women. This book was insanely popular. It was on the New York Times bestseller list for 155 weeks. That’s three years. So a lot of women (and Adam) are going to go into the theater with some preconceived “notions” about what a “nonfiction” story should be, just because they heard the story from the author directly. And they will be disappointed. Continue reading