Waitress

Pros: Great writing and direction, fine acting, intimate little movie.
Cons: Some disturbing themes, lots of cheating.

I guess there are worse places for your mind to be stuck than on pie. And really, after watching a movie with Keri Russell, I thought I'd be thinking about other things. But at the end of the movie last night, I found myself thinking about two things: ...

Pros: Keri Russell and the rest of the cast, bittersweet script
Cons: some cutseyness in pie names and letters to the unborn baby

I wanted to watch “Waitress” because of a recommendation of a friend who has known Andy Griffith since before his first TV series. As a curmudgeon named Joe who seemingly owns all the businesses in a Southern town and sports flamboyant ...

Pros: Funny, realistic, and sometimes heartbreaking
Cons: Adrienne Shelly is gone

Waitress is a very good movie whose release was overshadowed by the tragic murder of its writer and director, Adrienne Shelly. Although she never got to see the finished product, I think Shelly would have been proud to see this make a modest ...

Pros: I was thoroughly entertained by this offbeat movie.
Cons: Some 'situations' that may be considered offensive.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie from start to finish. I don't know exactly what it was about it that grabbed me, but I loved the characters and the story. Keri Russell is perfect as Jenna, the depressed waitress with a repressed life. She has a talent ...

Pros: Great story, great characters, good movie
Cons: Not a whole lot of action

Adrienne Shelly, who has acted in various small roles and has written other scripts such as ‘Urban Legend’ and ‘The Shadows of Bob and Zelda’ has written, directed and starred in a most ambitious and heart felt movie called ...

Pros: Main character grows
Cons: Some moral issues

Kerri Russell plays Jenna a waitress and pie maker who is very unhappy with her current life. She is married to an over controlling abusive husband who she absolutely hates. She dreams someday entering her pies in a pie contest and hopefully winning ...

Pros: Shelly's Direction/Script, Look, Dialogue, Humor, Music, & Cast.
Cons: A Bit Too Conventional for Some Audiences.

An icon to the 1990s independent film scene, Adrienne Shelly made a name for herself with her work with Hal Hartley, notably in the landmark 1990 film Trust about a young woman who becomes pregnant and falls for an anti-social computer genius ...

Pros: Keri Russell, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, all acting really; cute pie concept
Cons: overkill on cuteness, too far over the edge of reality

I love “girl power” movies. I love romantic comedies. I love Keri Russell (I watched Felicity religiously during college). So when I sat down to watch Waitress, I just assumed that I would love it. But after mulling over the experience I can only ...

Pros: Cast, story, everything.
Cons: Earl, though I love Jeremy Sisto.

Jenna Hunterson is a beautiful, young married, hardworking, immensely skilled piemaker who is also an extremely unhappy soon-to-be first time mother. She is cynical about her condition making pies named "Bad Baby Pie," the day's special. Jenna works at ...

Pros: Looks honestly at people & offers a positive view of how we can all change.
Cons: None. Good for men and women alike.

I *love* this movie. Before it went to DVD, I had it added onto my Amazon wish list. Starring Keri Russell (from TV's "Felicity") and Nathan Fillion (from TV's "Firefly," "Desperate Housewives"), this is the story of a small town waitress, Jenna, ...

Pros: Kerri Russell's performance
Cons: Script trips over itself when it navigates between comedy and drama

I hate to do this, but I have to take Adrienne Shelley's script to task. Call me an ogre.. call me what you will... but I have to call em like I see em. Bottom line... Waitress gets tripped up it when it tries tries to shift from comedy to ...

Pros: Great acting, Wonderful direction, Writing, Humor, Interesting characters, Good DVD features
Cons: I'm still trying to find one . . . moments of predictability.

It might behoove me to mention up front that I am not a fan of children or babies. In fact, I pretty much loathe them and the fixation so many people in America have with them. I mention that up front because I recently saw and fell in love with the ...

Pros: Great acting, with good interaction between the characters
Cons: Don't see it on an empty stomach

I've been a fan of Keri Russell since she starred in "Felicity" on TV. Based on the high quality of her performance there, I anticipated the best in her starring role as Jenna Hunterson in "Waitress." I was not disappointed.A bit of the ...

Pros: main character finds happiness
Cons: A lot of cheating and lying.

Jenna who is played by (Keri Russel) is a waitress of a small pie shop in a small town. She is married to an abusive, rude, selfish and narcissistic man; she also hates him with every fiber of her being. He makes Jenna give him all her earnings ...

Pros: Great direction, acting and plot. A movie that I could watch multiple times.
Cons: A little slow at times.

Writer, director and co-star Adrienne Shelly really out did herself on this movie. It is a shame that we will not be seeing more of her work. Keri Russell plays Jenna, a waitress that is happy with her job but extremely unhappy with her personal ...