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{{For|the book|Eat, Pray, Love}}
{{short description|2010 American film directed by Ryan Murphy}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Eat Pray Love
| image = Eat pray love ver2.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Ryan Murphy (writer)|Ryan Murphy]]
| producer = [[Dede Gardner]]
| screenplay = {{Plainlist|
* Ryan Murphy
* [[Jennifer Salt]]
}}
| based_on = {{Based on|''[[Eat, Pray, Love]]''|[[Elizabeth Gilbert]]}}
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* [[Julia Roberts]]
* [[James Franco]]
* [[Richard Jenkins]]
* [[Viola Davis]]
* [[Billy Crudup]]
* [[Javier Bardem]]
}}
| music = [[Dario Marianelli]]
| cinematography = [[Robert Richardson (cinematographer)|Robert Richardson]]
| editing = [[Bradley Buecker]]
| studio = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br/>[[Plan B Entertainment]]
| distributor = [[Sony Pictures Releasing]]
| released = {{Film date|2010|08|13}}
| runtime = {{Plainlist|
* 133 minutes
* 140 minutes (extended)<ref>{{cite web|title=''EAT PRAY LOVE'' (PG)|url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/eat-pray-love-2010-0|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=August 6, 2010|access-date=May 15, 2013}}</ref>
}}
| country = United States
| language = {{Plainlist|
* English
* Italian
* Portuguese
}}
| budget = $60 million<ref name="budget">{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/08/stallones-expendables-to-blow-away-eat-pray-love-and-scott-pilgrim.html|title=Movie projector: Stallone's 'Expendables' to blow away 'Eat Pray Love' and 'Scott Pilgrim'|last=Fritz|first=Ben|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 12, 2010|access-date=August 12, 2010}}</ref><ref name="mojoo">{{cite web |url= https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=eatpraylove.htm |title=Eat Pray Love |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |publisher=IMDb Inc |access-date=September 30, 2010}}</ref>
| gross = $204.6 million<ref name="mojoo"/>
}}
'''''Eat Pray Love''''' is a 2010 American [[Biographical film|biographical]] [[romantic drama]] film starring [[Julia Roberts]] as [[Elizabeth Gilbert]], based on Gilbert's 2006 [[Eat, Pray, Love|memoir of the same name]]. [[Ryan Murphy (writer)|Ryan Murphy]] co-wrote and directed the film, which was released in the United States on August 13, 2010. It received mixed reviews from critics, but was a financial success, grossing $204.6 million worldwide against a $60 million budget.

==Premise==
[[Elizabeth Gilbert]] had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house, a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in [[Italy]], the power of prayer in [[India]], and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in [[Indonesia]].

==Cast==

* [[Julia Roberts]] as [[Elizabeth Gilbert|Elizabeth "Liz" Gilbert]]
* [[Javier Bardem]] as Felipe, a Brazilian businessman Gilbert falls in love with on her journey
* [[James Franco]] as David, the man Gilbert has an intense relationship with while she is finalizing her divorce
* [[Richard Jenkins]] as Richard, a [[Texas|Texan]] Liz befriends at an Indian [[ashram]]
* [[Viola Davis]] as Delia Shiraz, Gilbert's best friend
* [[Billy Crudup]] as Steven, Gilbert's ex-husband
* [[Sophie Thompson]] as Corella, a woman at the Indian ashram
* [[Mike O'Malley]] as Andy Shiraz, Delia's husband
* [[Christine Hakim]] as Wayan, Gilbert's best friend in Indonesia
* [[Arlene Tur]] as Armenia
* Hadi Subiyanto as Ketut Liyer, Gilbert's advisor in Indonesia
* Gita Reddy as The Guru
* [[Tuva Novotny]] as Sofi, Gilbert's Swedish best friend in Rome
* [[Luca Argentero]] as Giovanni, Gilbert's Italian tutor and Sofi's love interest
* Rushita Singh as Tulsi, Gilbert's friend at the ashram

==Production==
''Eat Pray Love'' began [[principal photography]] in August 2009. Filming locations include [[New York City]] ([[United States]]), [[Rome]] and [[Naples]] ([[Italy]]), [[Delhi]] and [[Pataudi]] ([[India]]), [[Ubud]] and [[Pecatu|Padang-Padang Beach]] at [[Bali]] ([[Indonesia]]).<ref name="IMDBNews">[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879870/news#ni0921740 News for ''Eat, Pray, Love''] Retrieved on August 23, 2009</ref><ref name=jenkins>{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002405.html?categoryid=1237&cs=1|author=Tatiana Siegel|title=Jenkins set for 'Eat, Pray, Love'|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=April 14, 2009|access-date=August 29, 2009}}</ref>

[[Hindu]] leaders voiced concern over the production of the film and advocated the use of spiritual consultants to ensure that the film conveyed an accurate reflection of life in an [[ashram]].<ref>[http://calcuttatube.com/eat-pray-love-no-shooting-in-original-ashram/23305/ Eat Pray Love-No Shooting In Original Ashram] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100717030533/http://calcuttatube.com/eat-pray-love-no-shooting-in-original-ashram/23305/ |date=July 17, 2010 }} Retrieved May 10, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/eat-pray-love-julia-roberts-movie-worries-hindus_100338075.html 'Eat Pray Love' Julia Roberts Movie Worries Hindus] Retrieved May 10, 2010</ref> Both [[Salon.com]] and ''[[The New York Post]]'' have suggested that [[Gurumayi Chidvilasananda]] was the guru featured in the film and in the book by [[Elizabeth Gilbert]] on which the film was based, though Gilbert herself did not identify the ashram or the guru by name.<ref name=Salon2010>Shah, Riddhi. [http://www.salon.com/2010/08/14/eat_pray_love_guru_sex_scandals/ The "Eat, Pray, Love" guru's troubling past."] Salon.com, August 14, 2010. Retrieved November 22, 2011</ref><ref>Stewart, Sara. [http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/eat_pray_zilch_i9geyDJpY1z16Maa31JTYI/1 "Eat pray zilch."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113183417/http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/eat_pray_zilch_i9geyDJpY1z16Maa31JTYI/1 |date=November 13, 2011 }} The New York Post, August 10, 2010.</ref>

The two Balinese lead characters (Ketut Liyer and Wayan) are played by Indonesian actors Hadi Subiyanto and [[Christine Hakim]], respectively.

==Soundtrack==
# "Flight Attendant" by [[Josh Rouse]]
# "Last Tango In Paris (Suite, Part 2)" by [[Gato Barbieri]]
# "[[Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)|Thank You]]" by [[Sly & the Family Stone]]
# "[[Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen]]" (from Mozart's ''[[The Magic Flute]]'') by [[Vienna Philharmonic|Wiener Philharmoniker]]
# "[[Heart of Gold (Neil Young song)|Heart of Gold]]" by [[Neil Young]]
# "Kaliyugavaradana" by [[U. Srinivas]]
# "[[Long Road (song)|The Long Road]]" by [[Eddie Vedder]] and [[Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]]<ref name="Nusrat">{{cite web | url=http://popdose.com/basement-songs-eddie-vedder-with-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-the-long-road/ | title=Eddie Vedder with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Long Road | publisher=Basement Songs | work=Review | access-date=March 10, 2012}}</ref>
# "[[Harvest Moon (album)|Harvest Moon]]" by [[Neil Young]]
# "Samba da Bênção" by [[Bebel Gilberto]]
# "Wave" by [[Joao Gilberto|João Gilberto]]
# "[[Got to Give It Up|Got to Give It Up, Part 1]]" by [[Marvin Gaye]]
# "[['S Wonderful]]" by João Gilberto
# "Better Days" by [[Eddie Vedder]]
# "Attraversiamo" by [[Dario Marianelli]]
# "[[Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song)|Dreams]]" by [[Fleetwood Mac]]
# "[[Boyz (song)]]" by [[M.I.A. (rapper)|M.I.A.]]

==Reception==

===Box office===
The film debuted at #2 behind ''[[The Expendables (2010 film)|The Expendables]]'' with $23,104,523. It had the highest debut at the box office with Roberts in a lead role since ''[[America's Sweethearts]]'' in 2001.<ref name=mojo>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2889&p=.htm 'Expendables' Explode, 'Eat Pray Love' Carbo-Loads, 'Scott Pilgrim' Powers Down] boxofficemojo.com</ref> During its initial ten-day run, revenue grew to a total of $47.2 million.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2896&p=.htm |title=Weekend Report: 'Expendables' Battle On, 'Vampires,' 'Piranha' Settle for Scraps |first=Brandon |last=Gray |work=Box Office Mojo |date=August 23, 2010 }}</ref> The competing film ''[[The Expendables (2010 film)|The Expendables]]'' features [[Eric Roberts]], Julia Roberts's brother, and the box office pitted Roberts versus Roberts. ''[[Hollywood.com]]'' commented that "[[sibling rivalry]] is rarely as publicly manifested" as this.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/Roberts_vs_Roberts_Eat_Pray_Love_vs_Expendables/7097176 |title=Julia Roberts vs. Eric Roberts at box office... |work=Hollywood.com |date=August 10, 2010 |first=Paul |last=Dergarabedian }}</ref> The film, produced on a $60 million budget, grossed $80,574,382 in the [[United States]] and [[Canada]] and has a worldwide total of $204,594,016.

===Critical response ===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a 36% approval rating based on 203 reviews with an average rating of 5.18/10. The site's critical consensus reads "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."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eat_pray_love/ |title=Eat Pray Love Movie Reviews, Pictures |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=August 14, 2020}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], it has a score of 50% based on reviews from 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/eat-pray-love |title=Eat Pray Love Reviews |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |work=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=August 14, 2020}}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= EAT PRAY LOVE (2010) B |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= December 20, 2018 }}</ref>

[[Wesley Morris]] of ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' gave the film 3 out of 4 stars while writing "Is it a romantic comedy? Is it a chick flick? This is silly, since, in truth, it's neither. It's simply a Julia Roberts movie, often a lovely one."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/08/13/eat_pray_love_movie_review____eat_pray_love_showtimes/?page=1 | last=Wesley |first= Morris |title=Eat Pray Love movie review |publisher=[[The New York Times Company]] |work=The Boston Globe |date=August 13, 2010 |access-date=September 14, 2020 }}</ref> ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' film critic [[Mick LaSalle]] overall positively reviewed the film and praised Murphy's "sensitive and tasteful direction" as it "finds way to illuminate and amplify Gilbert's thoughts and emotions, which are central to the story".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/12/MVHL1ESGS5.DTL | last=LaSalle |first= Mike |title=Movie review: "Eat Pray Love" |date=August 13, 2010 |access-date=September 14, 2020 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |publisher=[[Hearst Corporation]]}}</ref>

Negative reviews appeared in ''[[The Chicago Reader]]'', in which Andrea Gronvall commented that the film is "ass-numbingly wrong",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/MovieTimes?oid=2157933 |last=Gronvall |first=Andrea |title=Eat Pray Love'' Showtimes & Reviews |publisher=Creative Loafing Media |work=Chicago Reader |access-date=September 14, 2020 }}</ref> and ''[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]'', in which [[Peter Travers]] referred to watching it as "being trapped with a person of privilege who won't stop with the whine whine whine."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/eat-pray-love-100814/ | last=Travers |first= Peter |author-link=Peter Travers | title=''Eat Pray Love'' News and Reviews | date=August 12, 2010 | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=September 14, 2020 }}</ref> Humor website ''[[Something Awful]]'' ran a scathing review. Martin R. "Vargo" Schneider highlighted several aspects of the film that he considered completely unrealistic.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.somethingawful.com/d/current-movie-reviews/eat-pray-love.php?page=3|title=Something Awful – The Expendables; Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; Eat Pray Love}}</ref> Political columnist [[Maureen Dowd]] termed the film "[[Omphaloskepsis|navel-gazing]] drivel" in October 2010.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dowd |first=Maureen |title=Making Ignorance Chic |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/opinion/20dowd.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 20, 2010 |access-date=October 21, 2010 }}</ref>

The [[BBC]]'s [[Mark Kermode]] listed the film as 4th on his list of Worst Films of the Year, saying: "''Eat Pray Love''... vomit. A film with the message that learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all, although I think the people who made that film loved themselves rather too much."<ref>{{YouTube|C29HFdTq5Vg|Kermode Uncut: My Worst Five Films of 2010}}. Retrieved December 30, 2010.</ref>

In ''[[The Huffington Post]]'', critic [[Jenna Busch]] wrote:
{{quote|''Eat Pray Love'' is ultimately charming and inspirational. Though it doesn't have quite the impact of the book, it will likely leave you pondering your life choices and forgiving your flaws. It will certainly have you forgiving the few flaws in the film. The performances are just too fantastic, the vistas too lovely to pay too much attention to anything else.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenna-busch/emeat-pray-loveem-review_b_680278.html |author=Busch, Jenna |title=Jenna Busch: Eat Pray Love Review |date=2010-08-13 |publisher=HuffingtonPost.com, Inc.}}</ref>}}

In the Italian newspaper ''[[La Repubblica]]'', journalist Curzio Maltese wrote:
{{quote|How many platitudes fit in a two-hour-twenty-minutes-long movie? Several, if ''Eat Pray Love'' is anything to go by. Sure, if TV director Ryan Murphy's directing weren't so slow, even more would. For example, in the long part shot in Rome, the [[mandolin]] is conspicuously absent. There's a shower of spaghetti, Italians who gesticulate all the time and shout vulgarities as they follow foreign girls around. [...] There's lots of pizza. But no mandolin. Why? [...] Goes without saying that the story would've surprised us more if Julia had found out how well one can eat in [[Mumbai]], how much they pray in [[Indonesia]], and how one can fall in love even in the ''[[Grande Raccordo Anulare]]'', possibly avoiding rush hour.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2010/09/18/nella-roma-di-julia-manca-solo-il.html| author=Maltese, Curzio | title=Nella Roma di Julia manca solo il mandolino| date=2010-09-18 | newspaper=La Repubblica}}</ref>}}

The film received generally negative reviews in the Italian press.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/film/critica/dettaglio/mangia-prega-ama/389215/394909| author=Tornabuoni, Lietta| title=Lietta Tornabuoni: Eat Pray Love Review| magazine=L'Espresso| access-date=September 23, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921064234/http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/film/critica/dettaglio/mangia-prega-ama/389215/394909| archive-date=September 21, 2010| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/film/critica/dettaglio/mangia-prega-ama/389215/394916| author=Ferzetti, Fabio| title=Fabio Ferzetti: Eat Pray Love Review| newspaper=Il Messaggero| access-date=September 23, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921024836/http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/film/critica/dettaglio/mangia-prega-ama/389215/394916| archive-date=September 21, 2010| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/film/critica/dettaglio/mangia-prega-ama/389215/395056| author=Romani, Cinzia| title=Cinzia Romani: Eat Pray Love Review| newspaper=Il Giornale| access-date=September 23, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102214404/http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/film/critica/dettaglio/mangia-prega-ama/389215/395056| archive-date=November 2, 2010| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Merchandising==
Marketers for the film created over 400 merchandising tie-ins.<ref name="abc">''[[ABC News]]'' article: "[https://abcnews.go.com/WN/eat-pray-love-spend-economy-happiness/story?id=11411598 Eat, Pray, Love – and Spend]."</ref> Products included ''Eat Pray Love''-themed [[jewelry]],<ref name="forbes" /> [[perfume]],<ref name="forbes" /> [[tea]],<ref name="forbes">''[[Forbes]]'' article: "[https://blogs.forbes.com/dorothypomerantz/2010/08/18/the-eat-pray-love-industry/?boxes=businesschannelsections The ''Eat Pray Love'' Industry]."</ref> [[gelato]] machines,<ref name="abc" /> an oversized Indonesian [[Bench (furniture)|bench]],<ref name="wp">''[[The Washington Post]]'' article: "[http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/08/eat_pray_love_parsing_our_feel.html 'Eat Pray Love': Parsing our feelings about all those product tie-ins]."</ref> [[prayer beads]], and a [[bamboo]] [[window shade]].<ref name="wm">World Market website: "[http://www.worldmarket.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=4251241&ab=EPL:main ''Eat Pray Love'' merchandise].</ref> [[Cost Plus, Inc.|World Market]] department store opened an entire section in all of their locations devoted to merchandise tied to the movie.<ref name="wp" />

The [[Home Shopping Network]] ran 72 straight hours of programming featuring ''Eat Pray Love'' products around the time of the film's release.<ref name="abc" /> The decision to market such a wide range of products, hardly any of which were actually featured in the film, brought criticism from ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'',<ref name="abc" /> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' and ''[[The Huffington Post]]''.<ref name="hp">''[[The Huffington Post]]'' article: "[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-moellering/shop-buy-repeat_b_670685.html Shop, Buy, Repeat]."</ref>

==See also==
* [[Julia Roberts filmography]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* {{IMDb title|0879870}}
* {{mojo title|eatpraylove}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|eat_pray_love}}
* {{metacritic film|eat-pray-love}}

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