Eat, Pray, Love is the film based on the memoir of the same name by American author Elizabeth Gilbert, co-written and directed by Ryan Murphy. Julia Roberts plays the Role of Elizabeth Gilbert, a 32 year old women well educated, had a home and a husband, and a successful career as a writer. But she was unhappy in her marriage and initiated a divorce, which her husband contested. While writing an article on yoga vacations in Bali, she met a seventh-generation medicine man who told her she would come back and study with him. Then plans to go on a trip with an advance she received on a book she planned to write. She spent the whole year traveling around the world. She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life (Eat). She spent four months in India, finding her spirituality (Pray). She ended the year in Bali, Indonesia, looking for “balance” of the two and found love (Love).