Eat Pray Love#Soundtrack

Elizabeth 'Liz' Gilbert has been married for 8 years, owns a house, and has a successful career. However, despite her seemingly stable life, she feels lost and confused, longing for something more meaningful. Liz decides to ask for a divorce from her husband, Stephen, which he struggles to accept. During this period, she has a brief affair with David, a young actor. Newly divorced and facing uncertainty, Liz embarks on a transformative journey to Italy, India, and Bali, seeking self-discovery.

During her travels, Liz discovers the joy of Italian cuisine, indulging in pasta and gelato for four months. She meets a new Swedish friend who introduces her to a private Italian tutor, and they share a Thanksgiving celebration before Liz heads to India. In India, Liz stays at an ashram where she delves into the power of prayer and is tasked with humbling chores like scrubbing floors. 'Texas Richard' becomes both a challenge and a support system for her. As her time at the ashram comes to an end, Liz moves on to Bali, Indonesia.

In Bali, Indonesia, Liz reunited with Ketut, a local healer, and takes on various tasks he assigns her. While cycling, she has a run-in with Felipe, a Brazilian, and seeks treatment for an injury from Wayan, a village healer. During her recovery, she meets Armenia, who encourages her to join in village festivities. There, Felipe apologizes for the accident, and they strike up a conversation. Despite Armenia's attempt to set her up with someone else, Liz finds herself drawn to Felipe. They spend time together, and Liz organizes a fundraiser for Wayan's house, raising over $18,000 USD.

When Felipe proposes, Liz agrees, but as they spend time alone in a remote location, she becomes overwhelmed and breaks off the engagement. As she prepares to leave Bali, Liz seeks advice from Ketut, who urges her to embrace love without fear. Inspired, Liz rushes to Felipe and confesses her love for him, finally finding inner peace and the balance of true love unexpectedly.

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

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 Padang-Padang Beach at Bali (Indonesia).{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/jenkins-set-for-eat-pray-love-1118002405/|author=Tatiana Siegel|title=Jenkins set for 'Eat, Pray, Love'|work=Variety|date=April 14, 2009|access-date=August 29, 2009|archive-date=September 3, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903180713/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002405.html?categoryid=1237&cs=1|url-status=live}}

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.[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[http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/eat-pray-love-julia-roberts-movie-worries-hindus_100338075.html 'Eat Pray Love' Julia Roberts Movie Worries Hindus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812115524/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/eat-pray-love-julia-roberts-movie-worries-hindus_100338075.html |date=August 12, 2018 }} Retrieved May 10, 2010 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.Shah, Riddhi. [http://www.salon.com/2010/08/14/eat_pray_love_guru_sex_scandals/ The "Eat, Pray, Love" guru's troubling past."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125222919/http://www.salon.com/2010/08/14/eat_pray_love_guru_sex_scandals/ |date=November 25, 2011 }} Salon.com, August 14, 2010. Retrieved November 22, 2011 The two Balinese lead characters (Ketut Liyer and Wayan) are played by Indonesian actors Hadi Subiyanto and Christine Hakim, respectively.

1. "Flight Attendant" by Josh Rouse
2. "Last Tango In Paris (Suite, Part 2)" by Gato Barbieri
3. "Thank You" by Sly & the Family Stone
4. "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" (from Mozart's The Magic Flute) by Wiener Philharmoniker
5. "Heart of Gold" by Neil Young
6. "Kaliyugavaradana" by U. Srinivas
7. "The Long Road" by Eddie Vedder and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan{{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 | date=March 11, 2010 | access-date=March 10, 2012 | archive-date=June 24, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624131610/http://popdose.com/basement-songs-eddie-vedder-with-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-the-long-road/ | url-status=live }}
8. "Harvest Moon" by Neil Young
9. "Samba da Bênção" by Bebel Gilberto
10. "Wave" by João Gilberto
11. "Got to Give It Up, Part 1" by Marvin Gaye
12. "'S Wonderful" by João Gilberto
13. "Better Days" by Eddie Vedder
14. "Attraversiamo" by Dario Marianelli
15. "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac
16. "Boyz" by M.I.A.

The film debuted at #2 behind 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.[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2889&p=.htm 'Expendables' Explode, 'Eat Pray Love' Carbo-Loads, 'Scott Pilgrim' Powers Down] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025234539/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2889&p=.htm |date=October 25, 2012 }} boxofficemojo.com During its initial ten-day run, revenue grew to a total of $47.2 million.{{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 |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=November 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116042529/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2896&p=.htm |url-status=live }} The competing film The Expendables features Eric Roberts, Julia Roberts' brother, and the box office pitted Roberts versus Roberts. Hollywood.com commented that "sibling rivalry is rarely as publicly manifested" as this.{{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 |access-date=August 16, 2010 |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930070739/http://www.hollywood.com/news/Roberts_vs_Roberts_Eat_Pray_Love_vs_Expendables/7097176 |url-status=live }} 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.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 35% approval rating based on 208 reviews with an average rating of 5.20/10. 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."{{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=April 29, 2025 |archive-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413214438/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eat_pray_love |url-status=live }} On Metacritic, it has a score of 50 based on reviews from 39 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.{{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 |archive-date=January 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119195637/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/eat-pray-love |url-status=live }} Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade B on scale of A to F.{{cite web |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/ |title=CinemaScore |publisher=CinemaScore |access-date=April 16, 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220413083139/https://www.cinemascore.com/ |archive-date=April 13, 2022 |url-status=live }}

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 1 out of 5 stars, beginning his review "Sit, watch, groan. Yawn, fidget, stretch. Eat Snickers, pray for end of dire film about Julia Roberts' emotional growth, love the fact it can't last forever. Wince, daydream, frown. Resent script, resent acting, resent dinky tripartite structure. Grit teeth, clench fists, focus on plot. Troubled traveller Julia finds fulfilment through exotic foreign cuisine, exotic foreign religion, sex with exotic foreign Javier Bardem. Film patronises Italians, Indians, Indonesians. Julia finds spirituality, rejects rat race, gives Balinese therapist 16 grand to buy house. Balinese therapist is grateful, thankful, humble. Sigh, blink, sniff. Check watch, groan, slump."{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/sep/23/eat-pray-love-review |last=Peter |first=Bradshaw |title=Eat Pray Love |work=the Guardian |date=September 23, 2010 |access-date=September 23, 2010 |archive-date=June 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616141408/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/sep/23/eat-pray-love-review |url-status=live }}

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."{{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 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065248/http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/08/13/eat_pray_love_movie_review____eat_pray_love_showtimes/?page=1 |url-status=live }} 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".{{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 |archive-date=March 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316000616/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/12/MVHL1ESGS5.DTL |url-status=live }}

Negative reviews appeared in The Chicago Reader, in which Andrea Gronvall commented that the film is "ass-numbingly wrong",{{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 |date=August 12, 2010 |access-date=September 14, 2020 |archive-date=August 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100830141042/http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/MovieTimes?oid=2157933 |url-status=live }} and 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."{{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 | archive-date=March 2, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302074141/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/eat-pray-love-100814/ | url-status=live }} Humor website Something Awful'' ran a scathing review. Martin R. "Vargo" Schneider highlighted several aspects of the film that he considered completely unrealistic.{{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|access-date=April 20, 2020|archive-date=March 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328012601/http://www.somethingawful.com/d/current-movie-reviews/eat-pray-love.php?page=3|url-status=live}} Political columnist Maureen Dowd termed the film "navel-gazing drivel" in October 2010.{{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 |archive-date=June 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617093515/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/opinion/20dowd.html |url-status=live }}

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."{{YouTube|C29HFdTq5Vg|Kermode Uncut: My Worst Five Films of 2010}}. Retrieved December 30, 2010.

In The Huffington Post, critic Jenna Busch wrote:

{{blockquote|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.{{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. |access-date=April 20, 2020 |archive-date=November 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128202134/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenna-busch/emeat-pray-loveem-review_b_680278.html |url-status=live }}}}

In the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, journalist Curzio Maltese wrote:

{{blockquote|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.{{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 | access-date=September 24, 2010 | archive-date=April 29, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429014509/http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2010/09/18/nella-roma-di-julia-manca-solo-il.html | url-status=live }}}}

The film received generally negative reviews in the Italian press.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}

Marketers for the film created over 400 merchandising tie-ins.ABC News article: "[https://abcnews.go.com/WN/eat-pray-love-spend-economy-happiness/story?id=11411598 Eat, Pray, Love – and Spend] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119003252/https://abcnews.go.com/WN/eat-pray-love-spend-economy-happiness/story?id=11411598 |date=January 19, 2021 }}." Products included Eat Pray Love–themed jewelry, perfume, tea,Forbes article: "[https://blogs.forbes.com/dorothypomerantz/2010/08/18/the-eat-pray-love-industry/?boxes=businesschannelsections The Eat Pray Love Industry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413213931/https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2010/08/18/the-eat-pray-love-industry/?boxes=businesschannelsections |date=April 13, 2024 }}." gelato machines, an oversized Indonesian bench,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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005092042/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2010/08/eat_pray_love_parsing_our_feel.html |date=October 5, 2012 }}." prayer beads, and a bamboo window shade.World Market website: "[http://www.worldmarket.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=4251241&ab=EPL:main Eat Pray Love merchandise] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825194504/http://www.worldmarket.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=4251241&ab=EPL:main |date=August 25, 2010 }}. World Market department store opened an entire section in all of their locations devoted to merchandise tied to the movie.

The Home Shopping Network ran 72 straight hours of programming featuring Eat Pray Love products around the time of the film's release. 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, The Washington Post and The Huffington Post.The Huffington Post article: "[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-moellering/shop-buy-repeat_b_670685.html Shop, Buy, Repeat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711221234/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/catherine-moellering/shop-buy-repeat_b_670685.html |date=July 11, 2017 }}."

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