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Waitress (2007)

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

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.

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Grade: B 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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Waitress

By evey49, 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.

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