Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 16 nominations
Hunter A. King
- Obnoxious Toddler
- (as Hunter King)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaDirector Adrienne Shelly was killed shortly after the film was completed. Keri Russell was called in to record a director's commentary for the DVD in her place, recounting the on-set creative process and decisions that went into making the film.
- GoofsDuring the movie, Jenna makes two lattice-top pies by laying all of the dough strips in one direction and then placing the dough strips for the other direction on top of the previous strips. Usually lattice-top pies are made with the dough strips for both directions woven together with each other. (That way they look better and bake more evenly.)
- Crazy creditsThere's a 'pie mistress' on the crew.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: The Condemned/Snow Cake/Waitress/Diggers (2007)
- SoundtracksMidas Touch
Written by Simon T. Scott, Richard Davis, Dan Trilk
Published by Golden Gods Music (BMI)
Performed by The Golden Gods
Courtesy of The Control Group, LLC
Featured review
Adulteress Fairy Tale
I recently went to a local movie theatre, in spite of misgivings about going to a chick flick, to watch Waitress. I was told by my female friend that it was a wonderful movie, "very romantic".
The word "romantic" immediately alerted me that I was being asked to go to a) a chick flick, b) in common with most chick flicks it would show men bad, women good, c) yet another movie upholding the virtues of a wife solving her marital problems by "screwing" her doctor, the pool boy, actually any male will do.
He only need be "handy" and ready to meet her needs.Funny how often the path to women's liberation in chick flicks so closely follows the standard porn flick formula of "horny wife" meet "sexy stud" for a night or two of exchanging various body fluids.
Really the only difference between a chick flick and a porn flick in terms of affairs of the loin is that a bit more time is spent on foreplay in chick flicks than in porn flicks. But in the end the results are the same. The wife is bedded and usually enjoys the experience!
The usual formula was followed in Waitress: introduce and get the ladies to hate the husband. The idea being, of course, to give the female lead( the wife) permission to get a little on the side and for the mostly female audience to see it all as different from a guy getting a little on the side.
In fact, it is a given that we would have hated the cardboard-like husband even more if he was shagging one of the local ladies, after revealing to his newly found bed partner that he, of course, was unloved and unappreciated both at home and in bed. Yet, reverse the roles allow the wife to get a little on the side with a sexy looking doctor, after the requisite foreplay, of course, and somehow we are expected to see in this affair of the loins: ROMANCE.
I find it sad that many mothers here thought this is a good film to share with their daughters. What are they sharing? If your marriage isn't working out, if prince charming proves to be as boring and unloving as you that this gives you license to cheat and have sex with whoever whispers "sweet nothings" in your ear. It is not exactly the advise I would want to share with my daughter.
I found the movie predictable and the ending about as clichéd an ending as one could possibly imagine.
If you believe getting a little on the side in a marriage, cheating, withholding your love from your spouse is honourable and life affirming, if you believe a woman is only a woman by having a baby, if you believe getting a divorce subtracts your spouse out of your life once and for all, if you believe that life is all about living happily ever after then you may enjoy this fairy tale.
If not...if you are truly a grown up, why waste your money?
The word "romantic" immediately alerted me that I was being asked to go to a) a chick flick, b) in common with most chick flicks it would show men bad, women good, c) yet another movie upholding the virtues of a wife solving her marital problems by "screwing" her doctor, the pool boy, actually any male will do.
He only need be "handy" and ready to meet her needs.Funny how often the path to women's liberation in chick flicks so closely follows the standard porn flick formula of "horny wife" meet "sexy stud" for a night or two of exchanging various body fluids.
Really the only difference between a chick flick and a porn flick in terms of affairs of the loin is that a bit more time is spent on foreplay in chick flicks than in porn flicks. But in the end the results are the same. The wife is bedded and usually enjoys the experience!
The usual formula was followed in Waitress: introduce and get the ladies to hate the husband. The idea being, of course, to give the female lead( the wife) permission to get a little on the side and for the mostly female audience to see it all as different from a guy getting a little on the side.
In fact, it is a given that we would have hated the cardboard-like husband even more if he was shagging one of the local ladies, after revealing to his newly found bed partner that he, of course, was unloved and unappreciated both at home and in bed. Yet, reverse the roles allow the wife to get a little on the side with a sexy looking doctor, after the requisite foreplay, of course, and somehow we are expected to see in this affair of the loins: ROMANCE.
I find it sad that many mothers here thought this is a good film to share with their daughters. What are they sharing? If your marriage isn't working out, if prince charming proves to be as boring and unloving as you that this gives you license to cheat and have sex with whoever whispers "sweet nothings" in your ear. It is not exactly the advise I would want to share with my daughter.
I found the movie predictable and the ending about as clichéd an ending as one could possibly imagine.
If you believe getting a little on the side in a marriage, cheating, withholding your love from your spouse is honourable and life affirming, if you believe a woman is only a woman by having a baby, if you believe getting a divorce subtracts your spouse out of your life once and for all, if you believe that life is all about living happily ever after then you may enjoy this fairy tale.
If not...if you are truly a grown up, why waste your money?
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- johnfredricksen
- Nov 21, 2007
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- Budget
- $1,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $19,074,800
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $92,034
- May 6, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $22,240,529
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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