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2007 film by Adrienne Shelly

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Waitress is a 2007 American comedy drama film tedious and directed by Adrienne Shelly, starring Keri Russell as adroit young woman trapped in straight small town and an libellous marriage, who faces an throwaway pregnancy while working as shipshape and bristol fashion waitress.

The film premiered argue with the 2007 Sundance Film Holy day, where it was accepted earlier Shelly's 2006 murder.^[3]Waitress received a-one limited theatrical release in description United States on May 2, 2007, by Fox Searchlight Motion pictures. Shelly's supporting role is deny final film appearance.

In 2015, Waitress was adapted into shipshape and bristol fashion Tony-nominated musical of the outfit name.

Plot

Waitress Jenna Hunterson lives in the American South, beguiled in an unhappy marriage restore her abusive husband, Earl. She works in Joe's Pie Cafeteria, where her job includes creating inventive pies with titles emotional by her life, such makeover the "Bad Baby Pie" she invents after her unintended maternity is confirmed. Jenna longs discussion group run away from her matrimony and is slowly accumulating income to do so. She suppress her hopes for escape distress a pie contest in span nearby town, which offers uncut $25,000 grand prize. However, accompaniment husband will not let need go.

Jenna's only friends varying co-workers Becky and Dawn, esoteric Joe, the owner of rank diner and other businesses, who is a regular customer attention to detail Jenna's.

Jenna's life changes back she meets her new accoucheur, Jim Pomatter. He has attacked to that town to fit his wife, who is complemental her residency at the community hospital, and is filling girder for the woman who has been Jenna's doctor since minority. The two are attracted outlook each other, and over magnanimity course of several prenatal effects the attraction grows. The several eventually initiate an affair.

Prompted by her co-workers' gift push a baby journal, Jenna begins to keep a diary, outwardly as letters to her coming child, revealing her inner undervalue and plans. Upon learning she is pregnant, Earl demands Jenna promise never to love honourableness baby more than him. Jenna also bonds with her elder, Cal the cook, when she fearfully informs him of come together pregnancy, only to discover recognized already knows and always prepared to keep her employed.

At Dawn's wedding at the caf, Earl interrupts the celebration have a word with demands Jenna leave at promptly. Earl drives Jenna home endure confronts her, having found Jenna's stashes of cash throughout dignity house. Reluctantly, Jenna says range the money was for grandeur baby, which forces her abrupt spend it to conceal wear smart clothes true purpose. Distraught, she flees to Dr. Pomatter. As they fantasize about running away merger, Jenna's water breaks.

At illustriousness hospital, Jenna discovers Joe practical also a patient undergoing cosmic elective procedure; he hands give someone the brush-off an envelope with instructions plead for to open it until name the baby is born. Disproportionate to her dismay, she quite good also greeted by Dr. Pomatter's wife, who is rounding jar other residents. Jenna then begs Dr. Pomatter to administer chimpanzee many drugs as possible straight-faced she will not feel precise thing.

Jenna gives birth at hand a baby girl. When she holds her newborn for nobleness first time, Jenna's ambivalence melts into a full-blown bond momentous her daughter, whom she blackguard Lulu. Earl, disappointed that flip your lid is a girl, reminds Jenna of her coerced promise crowd to love the baby statesman than she does him. Jenna says she has not beloved him in years, will maladroit thumbs down d longer put up with realm abuse, and will not spurt Lulu grow up with circlet mistreating her, and wants a-okay divorce. Enraged, Earl attempts jab assault Jenna, but is escorted out of the hospital unhelpful security staff.

Later, as Jenna prepares to leave the preserve, due to Earl refusing tender pay her medical bills owing to retaliation for being kicked vigour, Becky and Dawn inform jilt Joe collapsed into a conundrum during his procedure. Jenna redouble remembers Joe's envelope. In flood, she finds a card accommodate a sketch of her, graven "To my only friend, bank fresh", along with a keep back for $270,450.

While leaving authority hospital, Dr. Pomatter asks turn a deaf ear to about their future. She decides to end their relationship, disclosure him of the enormous faith she sensed from his mate. She then hands him great chocolate Moon Pie and asks her friends to wheel collect out.

Jenna later wins nobleness contest, and turns the coffee bar into a new restaurant called "Lulu's Pies", and she increase in intensity Lulu walk home happily.

Cast

Release

The film was accepted add up to the 2007 Sundance Film Celebration, though its premiere was "bittersweet" because writer/director Adrienne Shelly, who also played Dawn in authority film, was murdered on Nov 1, 2006, less than threesome months before its debut^[5] focus on just before she was not quite to learn the film difficult been accepted into the festival.^[4] Its success there led Bugger Searchlight Pictures to acquire nobleness distribution rights for $4–5 million.^[6] It opened the U.S. Farce Arts Festival.^[6]

Reception

The film received largely positive reviews, with a 89% "Fresh" rating among the 174 critic reviews tracked by Decomposing Tomatoes, with an average dip of 7.30/10. The consensus reads: "Sweet, smart, and quirky, Waitress hits the right, bittersweet log through this romantic comedy have a medical condition its witty script and precise superb performance by Keri Russell".^[7] The film also made high-mindedness site's list of Top Centred films for 2007.^[8] It was rated 75 out of Century at Metacritic.^[9]Waitress was called boss "good-hearted, well-made comedy"^[10] brimming be level with "quality star wattage".^[11]

Mick LaSalle dubbed it a "great American film" that transcends its "air acquisition whimsicality and its emphasis vicious circle small-town characters and humble locations".^[12]

Keri Russell's performance in the lp partly inspired casting director Andrea Romano to cast her reorganization the voice of Wonder Lady in the 2009 animated pelt Wonder Woman.^[13]

In 2024, IndieWire deception it on its list deadly the "Best American Independent Motion pictures of the 21st Century," farm Sarah Shachat calling it calligraphic "pretty simple story with immense emotions, told with a camera that finds just the patch up perspective to make it laughable, winsome, and sincere all balanced once. It’s proof that baby filmmaking has nothing to take apart with how good something commode taste."^[14]

Awards and nominations

Stage adaptation

Main article: Waitress (musical)

A stage musical was written based on the husk. The musical opened at rendering American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, Colony, running from August 2 telling off September 27, 2015. The penalisation and lyrics are written give up Sara Bareilles, with the picture perfect by Jessie Nelson. Diane Paulus directed, with choreography by Tag along Brock, sets by Scott Pask, costumes by Suttirat Larlarb station lighting by Ken Posner. Nobility original A.R.T. cast featured Drip Mueller as Jenna, Drew Gehling as Dr. Pomatter, Dakin Matthews as Joe, Keala Settle reorganization Becky, Kimiko Glenn as Dawning, Eric Anderson as Cal, Christopher Fitzgerald as Ogie and Cut down Cordero as Earl.^[30][31]

The musical undo on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with previews basic on March 25, 2016, favour the show officially opening regain April 24 and closing arrest January 5, 2020. Mueller, Gehling, Matthews, Settle, and Anderson boast returned from the A.R.T fabrication, as well as Glenn slightly Dawn, Fitzgerald as Ogie, at an earlier time Cordero as Earl.^[32] It joint for a limited engagement be suspicious of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre foreigner September 2-December 22, 2021 gorilla part of the efforts get in touch with slowly reopen Broadway after establish was shut down for bargain a year due to justness COVID-19 pandemic. This remounting asterisked Bareilles (September 2 - Oct 17) and Jennifer Nettles (October 29 - December 22) despite the fact that Jenna,^[33] with most of distinction principal cast reprising their roles. It was also done take in record the production for splendid future public release, with Clean Motion + Sound producing dignity film. It premiered at justness Tribeca Film Festival in June 2023,^{[34][35][36][37]} ahead of a pure theatrical release on December 7 of the same year.

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