Waitress

[2007, Movie]

Waitress: Review

Waitress, Lew Temple, Keri Russell, Cheryl Hines

It's tempting to over praise actress-turned-filmmaker Adrienne Shelly's third feature: It's a marked step forward from her second, I'LL TAKE YOU THERE (1999), which was in turn more accomplished than her debut, SUDDEN MANHATTAN (1997). Shelly was murdered before she could continue developing as a writer and director, and while this, her last film, is extremely uneven and undermined by an excess of quirk, Keri Russell's performance as a pregnant pie-guru is a charmer with a br... read more

Waitress: Cast & Details

Year: 2007
Rated PG-13

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Cast
Keri Russell: Jenna
Nathan Fillion: Dr. Pomatter
Cheryl Hines: Becky
Jeremy Sisto: Earl
Andy Griffith: Old Joe
Adrienne Shelly: Dawn

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Waitress: TV Guide News

DVD Tuesday: Felicity's Keri Russell Lights Up Waitress | Ask FlickChick | 11/27/2007
DVD Tuesday: Babies and pie and Keri Russell as a Waitress with a heart of gold and a razor-sharp tongue I don't generally make it my business to recommend movies I merely like rather than love, but there's something so sweet and slyly spirited about Waitress that I find myself making an exception.Small-town waitress Jenna (Keri Russell) works at Joe's Pie Diner, which is where a sweetie-pie like her was bound to wind up. She's kind to persnickety Old Joe (Andy Griffith), the nightmare patron the other girls do their best to avoid, she bucks up mousey Dawn (writer-director Adrienne Shelly), cracks jokes with Becky (Cheryl Hines, of TV's Curb Your Enthusiasm) and handles cranky boss Cal (Lew Temple) with no-nonsense aplomb.Jenna isn't a pushover — she's got a sharp eye and a sharper tongue. She's just fundamentally decent and looks for the decency in others. And she can bake a cherry pie… or a spaghetti pie or any other pie you could name and many you couldn't. She's given... read more
At the Movies: Grindhouser Reboots Barbarella | Today's News: Our Take | 5/22/2007
Robert Rodriguez has signed on to direct a new film adaptation of the sci-fi comic-book series Barbarella, previously committed to celluloid by Jane Fonda circa 1968.... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will make its international premiere June 28 in Japan. Why there? "No special reason," a studio rep tells Reuters.... To benefit The Adrienne Shelly Foundation, CharityFolks.org is hosting an auction of Waitress memorabilia, including aprons designed by the likes of Keri Russell, Cheryl Hines, Scarlett Johansson and Tori Spelling. read more

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