The "Eat, Pray, Love" trailer: Despite our best defenses, totally made us cry

Did you read the book Elaine? Elizabeth Gilbert didn't end up right where she started....she had a life changing experience in her travels in which she eventually finds herself (so she was ready for the man of her dreams not to complete her but to share her life experience and journey). I don't think all women are looking for a man to complete them and hoping to be Cinderella. I'm definitely not.

Hey thanks for the support ladies! It's very encouraging to know other women feel this way too. :)

Purge, Sin, Hate.... Julia is annoying.........

I didn't read the book and this trailer ain't doing it for me either. What a waste of Viola Davis! For my "monied white woman finding herself abroad" fix, I'll just rewatch Under The Tuscan Sun.

Like Jess and Kristina, I loved loved loved this book. It was like reading something I could have written myself, had I chosen that path. I was (and still am, a little) very suspicious of the "Hollywoodization" of one of my favorite books...but this trailer gives me hope. I think...maybe?...they might have nailed it, and left the heart intact.

The trailer's good, anyway...hope the movie is as good as the trailer!

Yeah, 'Commitment' (her next book) was not really 'Eat Pray Love Part II.' If you go into it expecting the same person/voice you will be disappointed.
She is a very talented writer, who is diverse. I think it shows her ability that she can do something so different - doesn't churn out the same perspective over and over.

I meant Eat Pray Love :)

For those of you who have not read the book, here's a summary: unhappy, self-centered woman (who grew up with loving, doting parents on a little Christmas tree farm) living a very nice life decides she's unhappy being unhappy with her education, husband, a house, and successful career so she dumps her husband and flakes off to Europe to eat, "pray" and have sex. She "discovers" herself when she meets her new lover. Then she gets herself on Oprah.

Booo! Bring the vid back :-(

I love this book so far it's very uplifting and eyeopening

the book was amazing, her second book 'commitment' left me longing for the first. I was soooo disappointed. It was more like marriage statistics book. Pity
I can not imagine Love Eat Pray being a movie and Julia Roberts???? please NO NO NO

This book inspired me. cant wait for the movie

Amen Melissa....Amen. We WOMEN need to support each other. Many of our problems would be solved if we did.

Had they cast anyone but Julia Roberts in this I'd probably be excited about seeing it, but I've yet to see a movie starring Julia Roberts that I have actually enjoyed. I'll pass.

And um...I've never even HEARD of this book let alone read it. Wow. I must live under a rock or something. LoL

I could very well be the only person on earth who hasn't read this book yet.

Great words Melissa!! Thank you for saying what so many people would want to say. Race should have nothing to do with a person's story being valuable and us, as women, should support each other. We all have our different struggles, our own joys and triumphs and they are all worthy of being shared.

I don't get why this trailer made anyone cry. It seems quite uplifting to me. I should start packing my bags and get myself to Paris. (I'm hispanic, supposedly under the poverty line and fat. I say supposedly because I can afford everything I need, have a nice house, a small cottage and no financial problems unlike many 'rich' people.)

Boy if that wasn't this white broad I don't know who is.

Thanks for the share. Loved the book and I will love the movie, too!

Elaine, I see your point, but what I took out of it was that she finally found love as herself, not as a carbon copy of her partner. Boy, can I relate to that! Felipe adored her unconditionally, and wanted nothing more than to be with her as she was, on whatever terms she allowed that to happen, and she got that; she wasn't trying to push herself into the role of Wife and Mother (or even, I'd argue by that point, Enlightened Woman), she was just...Liz. And she stayed Liz, she didn't (as her friend pointed out) begin to look like Felipe. And that made her able to love and be loved in a much deeper and truer way than her relationships with her husband and David.

Yes, she was in love again by the end of the book (hope that's not a spoiler...it's in the title!), but it was a much more sacred and mature love, and I found it most satisfying - in the book and in real life!

I would totally go see that movie if Julia Roberts wasn't in it. Bummer...