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Waitress
Jenna (Keri Russell) works in a diner in a small Southern town and is a genius at creating luscious desserts, but her marriage to an overbearing lout (Jeremy Sisto) makes happiness impossible. Jenna then meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
1 March 1982, Vancouver, Washington, USA
24 June 1966, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
6 October 1974, Grass Valley, California, USA
29 June 1974, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
27 December 1949, Santa Monica, California, USA
May 24, 2007
This bittersweet romantic farce teeters and then tips into precious, a forgivable sin once you know this sweet movie's sad history.
November 28, 2007
Waitress is not a perfectly cut, factory-line Safeway-brand slice. It does, though, serve up a generous deep-dish portion, homemade and heartfelt, that leaves a sweet taste goes down.
August 28, 2008
Adrienne Shelly's last piece has all the right ingredients.
November 22, 2010
Adrienne Shelly's lasting legacy is this exquisite, engaging film about slices of life, Keri Russell's luminosity, an unhurried narrative, Andy Griffith's codger delighting in schadenfreude and even Jeremy Sisto making his abhorrent character relatable.
November 17, 2011
Essentially a king-size serving of sitcom
November 18, 2011
Funny, gentle, unpatronising, if occasionally naive and quirky.
August 14, 2009
... Fillion offers up an endlessly charismatic performance...
October 18, 2008
The film is hardly flawless - even the pie-baking scenes sometimes seem half-baked - but it's hard not to read promise into every frame, and to wonder what Shelly might have cooked up in the future.
June 23, 2007
Shelly's film (regrettably her last) may be a fine folly for foodies. But as a fable of female empowerment, it seriously lacks flavor.
February 10, 2014
Shelly deftly achieves a tone pitched between fantasy and reality, its levity belying an astute and humane study of an unhappy relationship steeped in inertia.
March 24, 2016
...genuinely, genially funny and carries a modestly affirming moral: You have to make yourself happy and you have to be able to live with yourself.