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Face it, ladies – we all have priorities. At the end of the day, if someone asked you to narrow down what the three most important things in life are, we’d probably reply with an answer similar to –”Eat, Pray, Love.” 

So when a book with that title arrived on the shelves in 2006, chronicling Elizabeth Gilbert’s journey around the world to discover herself, it’s little wonder that it became a New York Times bestseller. 

And when fan favorite Julia Roberts was later cast in the feature film- women everywhere rejoiced.

The movie does the book justice on many levels, although it does stray from the raw emotion of the book, in which Gilbert finds herself at the end of a now loveless and broken marriage, ready to hurt herself, just to feel alive. 

Instead, she takes a yearlong journey to three countries – Italy, India and Bali.  

The cinematography of the film takes the picturesque scenery of each place and creates a video collage that allows you to feel as though you are looking through her memories with her. 

From the rustic villa she stays at in Italy to the hut with drapes rather than doors in Bali, each leg of her journey has you falling in love with the world. 

If two-and-a-half hours of Julia Roberts traveling around the world to discover that it’s OK to be at peace with herself isn’t enough to lure you to this movie – Javier Bardem might just do the trick. 

From their meet-cute in which he accidentally runs her off the road, to their torrid love affair that has you wishing the movie hadn’t wanted its PG-13 rating, Bardem plays her Brazilian lover with the passionate grace that every woman hopes for.

There are only two complaints to be made about this movie, the first is that the pray section in India is rather boring and uneventful, compared with the liveliness of Italy and Bali. 

Secondly, the perfection of her trip can seem a little bit forced. The odds of anyone being able to afford a year off from work to discover who they really are is idyllic and artificial, but Gilbert had the dream job before she needed to find inner peace, lucky for her.

As long as you are willing to accept that Gilbert’s life is better  and more economically advantageous than yours probably is, and embrace the fairy tale aspect of the trip, “Eat, Pray, Love” is the perfect girl’s night out movie.