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Title: Waitress (2007)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Keri Russell | ... | Jenna Hunterson | |
| Nathan Fillion | ... | Dr. Jim Pomatter | |
| Cheryl Hines | ... | Becky | |
| Jeremy Sisto | ... | Earl Hunterson | |
| Andy Griffith | ... | Old Joe | |
| Adrienne Shelly | ... | Dawn | |
| Eddie Jemison | ... | Ogie | |
| Lew Temple | ... | Cal | |
| Darby Stanchfield | ... | Francine Pomatter | |
| Heidi Sulzman | ... | Exhausted Mother | |
| Lauri Johnson | ... | Nurse Norma | |
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Sarah Hunley | ... | Dr. Lily Mueller |
| Cindy Drummond | ... | Hospital Nurse | |
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Nathan Dean | ... | Minister |
| Caroline Fogarty | ... | Doctor's Assistant | |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Waitress is a great, funny movie starring Keri Russell as a small-town waitress who discovers that she's pregnant just as she's planning to leave her jealous, controlling husband. The typical Hollywood approach for a movie like this would be to film it in ultra-serious "movie of the week" mode, but writer/director/actor Adrienne Shelly chose to tell her story in an extremely stylized, almost fairy-tale style. The stylized dialogue, super-sharp photography and primary-color palette even reminded me of the movies of Joel & Ethan Coen at times, but in the end, this movie packs an emotional punch that the Coen brothers have rarely achieved. It also features a brilliant (and brilliantly human) performance by Andy Griffith as the horny old geezer who owns the diner where Russell works.
This movie has a good chance at achieving a Little Miss Sunshine-style breakout this year. It's funny, quirky and honestly touching. Waitress stands as a fine legacy for Adrienne Shelly, but if things had been different, it could have been the movie that launched her into the mainstream instead of her swan song.