Sensitive comedy serves up bittersweet laughter
For Your Consideration
Erin Anderson
Issue date: 2/15/08 Section: Arts & Entertainment
While I tend to lean more towards movies of a more, well, violent nature, I need a break every once in a while. When I rented "Waitress," I was expecting just another girly girl, tear jerking, so-cute-you-want-to-vomit, chick flick. Instead, I found a witty, sensitive comedy; filled with loveable characters and a life-like story-and it did make me cry…a little.
Jenna (Keri Russell) is a pie-making genius, who works (appropriately) at a pie diner. She is unhappily married to Earl, a real pig of a man. Her only friends are the two southern gals she works with and the crotchety old man who owns the place (Andy Griffith). Dreams of saving enough money to leave her wretched husband are dashed when she finds herself pregnant with Earl's child.
With this shock of bad news comes some good. Jenna meets her hot doctor (Nathan Fillion from "Desperate Housewives") and they start secretly seeing each other. Jenna goes through more ups and downs before her child is born, chronicling her experiences throughout by creating spectacular pies.
"Waitress" is much more clever than your run-of-the-mill, Sweet Home Alabama-esque chick movie, void of characters like Lindsay Lohan in any role she's ever played. While the film is obviously aimed at those "Georgia Rule" lovers, I wouldn't be surprised to see some bros out there secretly wiping a tear or two away at the end.
You can find this DVD in the library at PN1997.D7 W233 2007.
Erin Anderson is a music major. She spends more time watching movies than she does homework. If she's not in front of the TV, she's probably in Filene.
Jenna (Keri Russell) is a pie-making genius, who works (appropriately) at a pie diner. She is unhappily married to Earl, a real pig of a man. Her only friends are the two southern gals she works with and the crotchety old man who owns the place (Andy Griffith). Dreams of saving enough money to leave her wretched husband are dashed when she finds herself pregnant with Earl's child.
With this shock of bad news comes some good. Jenna meets her hot doctor (Nathan Fillion from "Desperate Housewives") and they start secretly seeing each other. Jenna goes through more ups and downs before her child is born, chronicling her experiences throughout by creating spectacular pies.
"Waitress" is much more clever than your run-of-the-mill, Sweet Home Alabama-esque chick movie, void of characters like Lindsay Lohan in any role she's ever played. While the film is obviously aimed at those "Georgia Rule" lovers, I wouldn't be surprised to see some bros out there secretly wiping a tear or two away at the end.
You can find this DVD in the library at PN1997.D7 W233 2007.
Erin Anderson is a music major. She spends more time watching movies than she does homework. If she's not in front of the TV, she's probably in Filene.
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