Product Details

• Actors: Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis, Billy Crudup, I. Gusti Ayu Puspawati
• Directors: Ryan Murphy
• Writers: Ryan Murphy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jennifer Salt
• Producers: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Gary L. Hayes, Jeremy Kleiner
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 23, 2010
• Run Time: 133 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (271 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0042816YK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,367 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #87 in Movies & TV > DVD > Romance
• For more information about "Eat Pray Love" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) is a modern woman on a quest to marvel at and travel the world while rediscovering and reconnecting with her true inner self in Eat Pray Love. At a crossroads after a divorce, Gilbert takes a year-long sabbatical from her job and steps uncharacteristically out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life. In her wondrous and exotic travels, she experiences the simple pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of love in Bali. Based on an inspiring true story, Eat Pray Love proves that there really is more than one way to let yourself go and see the world.

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76 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, if you read the book....., August 29, 2010

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Whitney "gadget girl" (Seguin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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I read and loved the book, or more accurately, I bought the audio book and Elizabeth Gilbert read her book to me. From my vantage point on the other side of midlife, I can say that Elizabeth has the same problem a lot of people have, they are in an unhappy relationship and think the problem is the other person. Of course, it never is entirely the other person but usually one doesn't discover this until after the second bad marriage.

Elizabeth chucked everything and went on a journey to herself. If you pay attention to the subtleties of the movie, she begins her enlightenment when it stops being about her and starts being about other people. Richard, who lived up the highway from here until his death recently was certainly a real person and was portrayed in the movie very much like in the book.

The scenes in Bali were spectacular. The miraculous healing potions of Wayan were as described in the book.

When the movie was over, I felt that it was a "little too neat" in that some of the angst and agonizing were omitted as side plots and not important to the main story but in the book they were very interesting. My companion (another woman who had not read the book) remarked that she was glad it wasn't a "love story". In my opinion it was a love story about learning to love yourself and open yourself up to life. A lesson we all need to be reminded of.

Do yourself a favor, read the book, see the movie, read her next book. Enjoy!

122 of 158 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, trite, improbable and hypocritical, August 28, 2010

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Ellen Wertheimer "British novel reader" (Bala Cynwyd, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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Eat, Pray, Love was, first and foremost, boring. Nothing happened--no adventure, no enlightenment, no interesting conversations, no revelations, no self-discovery (or discovery of anything else, for that matter).

Second, this movie was trite. Reminiscent of the ego tripping of the 1960's, it added nothing new to any debate about anything--humanity, nature, individualism, all of these were possible topics. The movie touched on none of them.

Third, this movie was improbable. Liz wakes up one morning, deciding (for no ascertainable reason) to dump her husband and go on a year-long odyssey to discover something, or recover something, or whatever. She apparently has the funds to do this, which should come as a surprise to everyone (including herself) after her divorce. We certainly never see her worried about money or whether her mail will catch up with her, or how to pay her income taxes or credit card bills. In Italy, she eats pasta and moans about an increasing weight we certainly never see. In India, she stays on an ashram that seems to cater to spiritual tourists, but we never see her eating or sick. She never even gets dirty. In Bali, she takes on a huge commitment to transcribe ancient Balinese wisdom for a wise man, but abandons this endeavor without warning or excuse to spend three weeks (!) in bed with a handsome and very unusual Brazilian man. (When did any of you ever meet a gorgeous Brazilian man who was willing to be a househusband?)

Fourth, this movie represented selfishness and hypocrisy at extraordinary levels. She dumps her husband with no warning, no counseling, nothing. She goes where she wants and tramples upon whomever she wishes to crush. Given that she is on a mission of self-indulgence, it is shocking that she works to persuade a 17 year old Indian woman to marry the man her family has chosen for her. Why isn't this girl entitled to the same freedom that Liz feels is her own right? She does one thing that might be considered to be outside the solipsistic world she has created: she writes to her friends to ask them to donate money to a Balinese healer who desperately needs a house. But even that is staggeringly self-centered: she bases her request to them on the premise that, if she were in New York, her friends would be throwing a very expensive birthday party for her, to which they would bring expensive bottles of wine as gifts. What presumption!

In case you have read this far in this review, and in case, having read this far, you don't get the picture, this is a terrible movie.

30 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I couldn't even finish., November 25, 2010

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Lynn Benson (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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Why, oh why, did so many ladies sing the praise of this book and movie? Do I really know that many stupid, dull women? This movie was so lacking in story depth, character (which I understand is what the character was lacking in the beginning, but still!). Sure, it was visually appealing - which is why I gave it 2 stars. If I'd stayed longer for the male rear nudity, maybe it would have gotten 3 stars but I doubt it. After 12 minutes in my daughter and I already wanted to turn it off. And just over and hour we couldn't take it anymore. I think maybe you had to have read the book first to have bonded with the main character. Alas, this movie was made without realizing that most of their audience did not read the book first and we were not going to simply love the movie because Julia Roberts was in it.