Universal has announced the release date for Larry Crowne: July 1, 2011. The movie is directed by Tom Hanks who co-wrote it with Nia Vardalos. He also stars in the film alongside Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston, Rami Malek, and Taraji P. Henson. Read the synopsis below:

When appealing everyman LARRY CROWNE (Tom Hanks) is inexplicably fired from his job as a big box store clerk, he realizes it’s time for some meaningful change in his life. Deeply in debt and without direction, he returns to college where he befriends a group of scooter-riding students and eventually develops a real affection for his beautiful speech class instructor, MERCEDES TAINOT (Julia Roberts).

Charming and smart, LARRY CROWNE reminds us of life’s small surprises. Sometimes clouds really do have a silver lining. It’s also about the power of new beginnings like the time Larry Crowne, an ordinary man with a gentle heart, was forced to downsize his world…and ended up expanding his life.

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Julia Roberts has said that she no longer worries about her weight and dieting.

The Eat Pray Love actress told The Mirror she agrees with her character’s philosophy that “there’s a time to get over your self-loathing about food”.

Roberts explained: “You have to [stop worrying about food]. I’m too old for that crap. It’s so silly, so pointless, and it’s motivated by a culture that for some reason finds it entertaining to perpetuate the glorification of youth. It’s really sad and disinteresting.”

Admitting that she has remained slim throughout her career, the 42-year-old added: “It’s silly to consider it a personal triumph.

“I think it’s important for us to start perpetuating the healthy, happy way of looking at it, as opposed to supporting the negative ideal of what a girl should ideally look like.”

Julia Roberts has claimed that she can always depend on her husband.

Speaking to Style magazine, the actress praised the reliability and parenting skills of her cameraman spouse Daniel Moder, whom she married in 2002.

“He’s my rock,” she said. “My husband is my best bud. He’s so smart and he never lets me down.

“People often ask me about balancing work and motherhood and whatnot, but it’s easier for me than for so many others. I can choose when I work and I have a wonderful support system in place.”

Roberts also revealed that although her marriage requires effort at times, she feels no need to employ “tricks” to keep it strong.

“There’s no secret to a successful marriage – it’s not a magic trick – I’m just lucky to have found someone who I can build my life on,” she said.

“I’m at an appropriate place in my life. But you have to continually nurture that place. I don’t think it’s a finite fixed point on a map, but family definitely plays a huge part in that.”

Researchers found Hollywood actresses and beautiful models were who online criminals most likely used to lure unsuspecting web users to bogus sites.

They found more than six million unique, newly created pieces of malicious programming were created over the past year, the equivalent to around 60,000 pieces every day.

In the ten years since Julia Roberts won her Oscar for Erin Brockovich she has put her leading lady status to one side to focus on motherhood.

So anticipation about her big comeback movie, Eat, Pray, Love, was high.

But not enough, it seems, to pull in the audience.

The long-awaited film about a 40-something woman’s midlife crisis came in second to Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables in it’s opening weekend at the U.S. box office, capturing 23.7million, compared to 35million.

The film starring Roberts and Javiar Bardem, is taken from Elizabeth Gilbert’s award-winning memoir about leaving her marriage and her year travelling to India, Indonesia and Italy.

She finds herself through the eye-opening feast of sights, sounds and food that she encounters.

Robert’s real-life counterpart also met her next husband (played in the film by Bardem), wrote a second book and is now well known in Hollywood.

Perhaps Eat, Pray Love’s unexpected failure to come in at number one may be down to women’s more realistic viewpoints about how to find happiness.

They may also have heard that Gilbert funded her odyssey with a book advance and not out of her own pocketbook.

Critics were mixed in their reviews.

‘The movie left me with a feeling of being trapped with a person of privilege who won’t stop with the whine, whine, whine,’ said Rolling Stone magazine.

The Los Angeles Times saw some positives: ‘[It] is unlikely to change anybody’s life or even to provoke emotions anywhere near as intense as those experienced by its intrepid heroine.

‘Its span may be global, but its scope is modest, and it accepts a certain superficiality as the price of useful insight. Watch. Smile. Go home and dream of Brazilians in Bali.’

The Telegraph wrote: ‘Eat, Pray, Love is the story of a pilgrimage. We all, including Julia Roberts, long for a pilgrimage at some point in our lives.’

‘A minor and superficial summer diversion that offers female viewers not much more than a two-hour escape fantasy,’ said Salon.com.

Others say the film is too much of a travelogue, and doesn’t stay close enough to the book, which also touches on Gilbert’s spiritual leanings.

‘I stopped trusting the movie,’ said Slate.com’s Dana Stevens.

There were high expectations for Eat Pray Love, made for approximately $60 million, – $20million more than another recent female-oriented film, Julia&Julia.

Roberts, one of the first women to make more than $20 million at the boxoffice, is now 42.

But while she may be one of the older leading ladies, she still has a wide appeal to women of all ages,

In fact 44 percent of females watching the film in the U.S. were aged under 35.

And while critics may not be impressed, fans are happy that the film has finally arrived.

‘Everyone should go see ‘Eat Pray Love’ this weekend. Such a beautiful film….and the acting is phenomenal,’ tweeted a fan on Twitter.

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Julia Roberts wouldn’t have made Eat Pray Love if Javier Bardem didn’t agree to be in it, the actress reveals.The 42-year-old tells USA Today that out of all her male co-stars the making of the movie hinged on the Spaniard.

In Eat Pray Love Bardem plays a Brazilian importer who falls for Roberts’ character during her time in Bali.Roberts – who plays writer Elizabeth Gilbert in the movie – says: ‘He was the only one for me.

‘If he hadn’t agreed to do it I think we couldn’t have done it.

‘It’s such a vital element. Everything we’ve invested up until that point we hang on this man to bring us across the finish.’

The actress plays opposite three actors in the film, which is based on the best-selling memoir of the same name.They include James Franco, 32, Richard Jenkins, 63, and Billy Crudup, 42.But in the end Gilbert pairs off with future husband José Nunes, played by 41-year-old Bardem.

‘I had the payoff,’ says the Spaniard who recently wed actress Penelope Cruz.

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