What a gem of a movie. Waitress is excellent and you shouldn't miss it.
In Waitress, Keri Russell waits tables and bake pies at this small joint in the south. She is married to a jealous Jeremy Sisto, she is sick of him and she wants out. She bitches about life with her girlfriends Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Shelly (who is also the director, killed before her movie opened), and bakes great pies, all the while having an affair with her gynecologist Nathan Fillion. This waitress story is well told.
Cheryl Hines and Adrienne Shelly deserve recognition for their work. They are really great here.
The soundtrack is excellent too. Waitress is out on DVD and Keri Russel is on August Rush, now in theaters.
felicity doesn't cut her hair halfway through the movie and ruin my ability to identify with her for the rest of the picture, does she?
Posted by: avi | Dec 23, 2007 at 08:36 PM
A very charming movie, and I was very surprised with how much I liked Andy Griffiths. And in response to JH, "fruitcake" can also be someone who's just plain crazy. I think there's a phrase "nutty as a fruitcake" to mean someone who isn't completely with it.
Posted by: Greg | Dec 05, 2007 at 03:38 PM
You guys missed something. Something very small, but something nonetheless--one of the characters refers to Cheryl's Hines' character's husband as a "fruitcake"--although not wildly offensive, this is a gay slur.
Posted by: JH | Dec 04, 2007 at 10:19 PM