A movie review was requested of me, multiple times, and funny enough, it is what I was beginning to plan as my blog while I drove home. Sometimes you really are presented with what you need to do in life, even if it just to write a movie review about "Eat Pray Love."

Elizabeth Gilbert's story starts out confused and sad. She is at the end of a marriage, and then goes on to lose herself in another relationship. She feels nothing in life anymore and seeing herself so dead, and lost, and empty, sets off on a trip to Italy, India, and Indonesia...to Eat, Pray, and, in the end, Love.

If you have read this book, you know how powerful it is. I'd say the movie, as a visual representation of a piece of written work, is equally powerful. It was full of the wonderful stories, and myriad lessons, from the book. It also has positively breathtaking imagery. I am such a travel hound, and to see Italy, India and Bali in bright, vivid cinematography, on the big screen, feels like a passport stamp in itself. Then there was the acting. I mean, Julia Roberts...you just don't get any better than that. Then, in the last half hour or so, Javier Bardem. That man had me at "Vicky Christina Barcelona," another great travel movie, if you're looking for one, but set, instead, in Spain. I am thinking of ways right now to coerce Tim to grow his hair just a wee bit longer...

So the review, two thumbs up. Take a girlfriend...nope, not too many men in that theater tonight...and go see "Eat Pray Love."