One of my all time favorites.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The story is simple. A waitress has an abusive husband and she get's pregnant and goes to the local doctor for consultation and she falls in love with him and between them begins a love romance.I'm truly amazed by the high rating. I don't say it's a bad movie just that is simple and nothing too fancy about it. Just the drama of an ordinary American woman and her daily routines at work and at home. Also we are not told why her husband has this vile behavior for his wife, in fact what she ever do to him that deserves this treatment? There a many movies with mystery in witch a review is hard to write because after you watched you still don't get it, even if you watch more then once but here is not the case so I still think is a too appreciate film for it's trite content. If you are bored in one afternoon and you are in the mood to watch a story life, this is a good pick, but that's all.

I have a friend that loves odd little independent flicks. We have some weekends where we go out for a movie and either she or I get to pick. Because she picks movies that I never hear of, she literally drags me kicking and screaming to the theater and I always think I will hate it--Problem is that she is never wrong.... I found Waitresss as entertaining as a fine five course meal.The plot is very simple. Meet Jenna (Keri Russell) a pretty but quirky young woman who works as a waitress in a diner that specializes in home baked pies located in some sleepy Southern town. Jenna's only passion in life is concocting delicious pies with odd ingredients off the top of her head which she has special names for them depending on her mood or what is happening in her life. However, she feels trapped in a loveless marriage with her overbearing caveman husband, Earl (Jeremy Sisto) who treats her more like his possession than a wife. Her life changes drastically when she gets accidentally pregnant by her husband whom she plots to leave one day and win a contest to become a pie baking champion. Jenna feels hopeless for her life but again fate lends a hand when she meets and has a affair with the handsome new doctor, Dr Pometter (Nathan Fullion) Now Jenna must face some choices and challenges about her life.The other characters are just as quirky. Jenna's two co-workers Becky (Cheryl Hines) and Dawn played by the talented director herself, Adrianne Shelly are Jenna's best friends and probably considered family. The owner of the diner,rich Old Joe, played by Andy Griffith is a cranky curmudgeon with a somewhat lovable air about him. I always thought that the reason Jenna's character got along so well with Old Joe because both characters seem to look at life with a somewhat pessimistic attitude.I think the film explores the choices that people make in life--sometimes bad or morally corrupt. Nobody is condemned or ridiculed but often shown how they arrive at their chosen destination. And as we go thru life running "like chickens with their heads cut off" we may eventually arrive to a conclusion that we made the wrong choice. If so, the only right thing to do is "make a clean break and start over" I would also advise that the film has been criticized as NOT male friendly. A lot of people feel that the male characters are blamed for all the bad things in life--I disagree and you will have to make the choice after seeing it. I think that each character made their own situations and bad choices.Also a warning, that this film will make you HUNGRY! Various pie recipes are shown and by the end of the film, you'll probably be looking for desert. It also has made me somewhat of a pie maker myself! It is a tragedy that such a talent like Adrianne Shelly was taken away from us before her time. I believe that had she lived, she would be seeing Academy Award.

The late Adrienne Shelly wrote, directed, and co-stars in this modest comedy wherein a small town pie-maker (who works as a waitress at the diner she makes desserts for!) considers leaving her abusive husband for her handsome--but already-married--obstetrician. To complicate matters, she finds she's pregnant for the first time (after the husband got her drunk one night), though this only seems to sweeten the pot for the doctor, who wants to run off with her anyhow. Keri Russell is very fetching and grounded in the leading role, but her character (who has been making delicious treats her entire life) comes off as an underachiever, with no money and no hope in turning her baking talents into a lucrative profession. Jeremy Sisto's angry, selfish husband fares no better; wouldn't he want his wife bringing home more money...or is he happy struggling along from paycheck to paycheck? The condition that he's so jealous he won't allow her to try for bigger prospects is a lazy, illogical out, and the scenes between husband and wife are both unpleasant and unconvincing. Shelly has created some engaging, folksy supporting roles (such as Andy Griffith's salty proprietor), but because the movie has only one foot in reality, the situations these people are involved in do not come to much. The humor is quirky-cute though not terribly funny, while the Southern milieu, the life in the diner, and the side-threads of romance each fail to come off. ** from ****

It's hard to imagine that Adrienne Shelly who wrote, directed, and co-starred as lovable Dawn Williams in the film has been gone for 5 years after a brutal murder in New York City. This film was her lasting legacy. When you watch the film, you are seeing genius at work. Granted, there are some flaws in the film but nothing could take away from what it brought. The cast stars Keri Russell as Jenna (a pie making genius) who works as a waitress at Joe's Diner in a small town. She's pregnant and in an unhappy marriage to abusive Earl. Cheryl Hines plays Becky, another waitress who has an invalid husband at home. Adrienne Shelly plays Dawn, the awkward but lovable waitress who finds love unexpectedly. Anyway, Jenna's pregnancy and her job as a waitress makes her realize a lot about herself. She has an interesting relationship with Dr. P. (played by Nathan Fillon) in the cast. It's a great small film. One of those gems that you wished there were more of. I loved seeing Andy Griffith play Joe. He's great.