Adrienne Shelly's Waitress

suite101.com     Jul 13, 2008          

Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion, Jeremy Sisto Waitress is an unusual film, taking a freshly honest look at a woman enduring an (initially) unwanted pregnancy. Waitress is a 2007 film directed by the late Adrienne Shelly. It was, unfortunately, overshadowed by her untimely death--Shelly was murdered shortly after the film's completion. Regardless, the film itself is noteworthy out of the year's releases. It has an unusual perspective and an upbeat ending. It treads a fine line of becoming almost too heavy and sad, wrapped up in the main character's seeming lack of choices, but bounces back with a positive spin. The Set-Up Keri Russell stars as Jenna, a woman who specializes in making all kinds of delicious pies and then naming them very distinctive, unusual names (I Hate My Husband Pie, Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser... [read full story]                    


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