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Waitress (2007)

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Release Date: May 2, 2007 (Limited)
On DVD: November 27, 2007
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Director: Adrienne Shelly
Writer: Adrienne Shelly
Cast: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Eddie Jemison, Lew Temple
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Official site: foxsearchlight.com/waitress
Running Time: 104 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language and thematic elements.

Adrienne Shelly's sunny final film is also her most artistically successful and intrinsically marketable directorial effort. An old-fashioned fairy tale that honors the transformative power of female friendship and motherhood, "Waitress" features a dynamic cast led by Keri Russell, whose character will surely do, in a Rachael Ray kind of way, for down home pie-making what the title character of "Babette's Feast" did for Cailles en Sarcophage.

When Russell's character Jenna, a waitress in a cheery...

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Keri Russell stars in Waitress, one of the rare movies to feature the well known TV actress in a starring role. The movie may also be a breakout one for the "Felicity" star as she turns in a great performance as a depressed, adulterous waitress who loves making pies but hates her husband.

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evey49 says:

March 9, 2008

You can not help feeling for Kerry Russell. A wife treated like crap then a kind man leaves her a pile of money to start a new life. Not before she makes a few bad choices.

No HTML. Be kind - your mom might read what you say.

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