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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Don't miss writer/director Adrienne Shelly's sweet, sassy comedy about the power of friendship, motherhood and second chances, starring the radiant Keri Russell who serves up "a hilarious and heartfelt performance" (Rolling Stone). | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Andy Griffith, Keri Russell, Adrienne Shelly, Jeremy Sisto, Sarah Hunley | | Director: | Adrienne Shelly | | Format: | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | English, French | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | 20th Century Fox | | Run Time: | 108 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | November 27, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 190 reviews |
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 Loved "Waitress" Jul 30, 2010
This movie is without a doubt, one of the sweetest and most heart warming movies I've seen in a long time. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a purely entertaining and fun movie.
 Fries with That Jul 11, 2010
I like a Sundance sort of picture as much as the next man, but this one has too much about pies in it. Maybe if I liked pies more, I would enjoy the endless shots of pies being made, nut they needed a better food stylist here if they were going to spend reels of film pouring viscous mounds of goo from a bowl held high above the table into the waiting piecrust below. Repeat, ad infinitum, add voiceover explaining that this was "Jenna's Feeling Bad Today Pie" or "Jenns Needs a New Sparkplug in her Love Life Pie." The cutesy names did it for me. I could not fully appreciate the simplicities of the story, nor the occasional good acting.
I saw this on the heels of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW and this could not help but see some similarities between the two films. You have the ignored wife, the callous husband, the tiny town where everyone knows your business. In TLPS you had Sam the Lion (Ben Johnson) a crusty old curmudgeon of a diner owner whose bequest changes the lives of everyone around him. And here you have Andy Griffith, going through the Sam the Lion playbook without even a single change of dialogue, well, practically. Never mind, it's a great old part, and somebody should be playing it in every movie.
I can see why the actors wants to participate. I'm not even an actor, but even I would pay good money to be able to play in one of those scenes in which the two principals who hate each other part angrily, and then in a doubletake a moment later, the madder one turns around and marches to the other and kisses him/her with all the pentup list the screen will allow. It's in every Sundance movie, but why doesn't it happen this way in real life?
Cute May 24, 2010
"Waitress"; is a cute dry witted film that sets Jennas life situations into pies. Every thing in her life equals a different pie type. This is a serious film with bits of comedy. It seemed to drag in areas but it had a side of truth that kept me watching. This film was rich with small town charm and quirky characters. I like it and would recommend it to friends.
Decent movie pie: one Nathan Fillion, mashed, with two cups of irony... May 03, 2010
Halfway during the film Waitress, when the reluctantly pregnant heroine, Jenna (Keri Russell), experiences an existential reinvigoration thanks to her affair with the sexy new doctor in town, Dr. Pomatter (Nathan Fillion), a song by the band Cake plays.
For those who don't know Cake, it's a perfect choice. Not only does this film concern, well, pie-making, but it also exhibits that same sardonic delivery and dry wit, that same blunt deadpan style that Cake is so fond of. This is a film where one character says monotonously, "Maybe I'm not such a bad guy after all." And the other character replies, without inflection, "Maybe you're not such a bad guy after all." At first, the dialogue sounds awkward, the acting stilted: they're like robot people reciting things. And the semi-mythical Small Southern Town feels false. But gradually you warm to it, and the same sense of low-key, smirking humor seeps into you like... well, like when you listen to Cake.
Somewhere in a Small Southern Town, caught sometime in the 1950s, the local pie diner's favorite waitress, Jenna, discovers she's pregnant. This is probably the worst news she could get, as she was planning to flee her abusive, narcissistic husband, Earl (Jeremy Sisto), right after winning big at the upcoming Pie Contest. Jenna is unapologetically grumpy about this news, and even instructs her new Yankee gynecologist, Dr. Pomatter, not to make a big deal about. "Un-congratulations," he supplies.
During their regular visits, Jenna becomes increasingly bemused with Pomatter, who is bumbling, perpetually nervous and very adorable. He is also, unfortunately, very married, but this doesn't stop the two of them from unexpectedly assaulting each other in one of the film's best sequences. Carpe diem indeed!
Meanwhile, the other waitresses (Adrienne Shelly, who also wrote the screenplay, and Cheryl Hines) are having their own romantic tangles, Andy Griffith (like, the real Andy Griffith) drops by to play the curmudgeonly diner owner, Earl the Evil keeps getting worse and Jenna concocts a series of wonderfully appropriate new recipes. Our favorite being Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser Pie: "Lumpy oatmeal with fruitcake mashed in. Flambé, of course."
This film is a fairy tale that flirts dangerously along the border between an an age before Betty Friedan and a sort of uber-ironic post-post-feminism. Thankfully (?) it's pretty light fare, and doesn't aspire to any great revelations about the second sex. Though there is a lot of freshness in that adultery isn't demonized, nor is being less-than-enthusiastic about the fruit of your loins. The cinematography is very geometrical, with angular profiles and neatly aligned pie-making supplies. (This is all lovingly messed up with the arrival of Pomatter and his very doctorly disorganization and adorably confused hair. But I digress.) Things never get as self-consciously ironic or aesthetically stylized as a Wes Anderson film, and we, at least, were grateful for that. As Andy Griffith describes the perfect pie in one scene, there's a bittersweet chocolate middle followed by a familiar strawberry sweet ending.
*Review originally published at the Post-Punk Cinema Club.
Waitress--Witt and Poignant Apr 06, 2010
I have a short list of favorite movies that dates back to 1939 and "Waitress" has earned a spot on this list. Brilliantly written and directed by the incomparable Adrienne Shelly, Waitress is at once warm, yet sarcastic, funny yet sad. Witty and poingant. The humor is sharp and sophisticated. The subject matter is multi-layered and significant and so tastefully touched upon. It is impeccably and perfectly cast and it is a lasting testimony to women and to the memory of Adrienne Shelly's brilliance of mind and of heart.
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