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Waitress (2007)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 165
Fresh: 146 | Rotten: 19

Sweet, smart, and quirky, Waitress hits the right, bittersweet notes through this romantic comedy through its witty script and a superb performance by Keri Russell.

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 1

Sweet, smart, and quirky, Waitress hits the right, bittersweet notes through this romantic comedy through its witty script and a superb performance by Keri Russell.

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Movie Info

Trapped in a miserable marriage and blessed with the ability to transform her misery into delicious desserts, a small-town waitress finds her life forever changed by an unplanned pregnancy. Every day, Jenna (Keri Russell) ties on her apron and serves her customers with a smile, and every night she goes to bed knowing that she is one step closer to the day that she can kiss her scarily domineering husband (Jeremy Sisto) goodbye forever. A smart and sassy baker whose extraordinary pies are

PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Adrienne Shelly

Nov 27, 2007

$18.7M

Fox Searchlight Pictures

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All Critics (170) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (150) | Rotten (20) | DVD (16)

Waitress is not a perfectly cut, factory-line Safeway-brand slice. It does, though, serve up a generous deep-dish portion, homemade and heartfelt, that leaves a sweet taste goes down.

November 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
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This bittersweet romantic farce teeters and then tips into precious, a forgivable sin once you know this sweet movie's sad history.

May 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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While Shelly's film trades in an especially outrageous form of girl-movie self-consciousness, she's completely sincere when it comes to making her heroine the irresistible repository of our sympathies.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Russell is the magic ingredient that holds all this together.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | Comment
San Jose Mercury News
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Waitress deserves an essay, not just a review. There are perfect moments that stand out, and the reasons for their perfection are interesting.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Waitress is sweet, uneven and, ultimately, a heartbreaker.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment
Globe and Mail
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Adrienne Shelly's lasting legacy is this exquisite, engaging film about slices of life, Keri Russell's luminosity, an unhurried narrative, Andy Griffith's codger delighting in schadenfreude and even Jeremy Sisto making his abhorrent character relatable.

November 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com | Comment
Suite101.com

Allergic as I am to quirkiness, I was won over

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

... Fillion offers up an endlessly charismatic performance...

August 14, 2009 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Adrienne Shelly's last piece has all the right ingredients.

August 28, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com | Comment

full of whiney characters that eventually make the right decisions only after an unprecedented amount of hand-wringing

August 17, 2008 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

It's a love letter of the first degree, the kind that rises out of trepidation and confusion, almost by accident, with a sudden force of absolute clarity.

June 9, 2008 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine | Comment
Paste Magazine

(...) Si por algo será recordada esta película, lamentablemente, es por la trágica muerte de su directora y libretista Adrienne Shelly (...)

April 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | Comment
Uruguay Total

Waitress is a beautiful and poignant swan song for what should have been the vanguard of a blossoming career.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Colorado Springs Gazette | Comment
Colorado Springs Gazette

Keri Russell sparkles in this story about a piemaker who longs for something more filling.

February 2, 2008 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | Comment
Oscar Guy

Completely inauthentic in every detail--the cinematic equivalent of an apple pie from Perkins.

December 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Snobs | Comment
Film Snobs

Despite Shelly's twist of disturbing fate, WAITRESS will be a memorialized nod of a little gem of a film that delivered a slice of pie to our hungry, entertaining expectations

December 6, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Movie Eye

I dare you to sit through Waitress and not fall for Russell.Her face is open like a baby's and sculpted like a goddess'.

December 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangitout.com | Comment
Bangitout.com

A sweet-as-pie comedy that just happens to have a sprinkle of romance.

December 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

It's a small movie set in a small town, and features actors who were most famous for parts on the small screen. And it also just happens to be one of the more entertaining movies of the year.

December 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Three Movie Buffs | Comment
Three Movie Buffs

Nothing can distract from the inherent joy of experiencing this undeniably tasty creation.

November 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Metromix.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Waitress

Well seems I'm the only person who didn't like this?! I thought it was a Rom-Com but it's more of a Rom-Drama. Quite weird and quirky, I just found it painfully slow, long and a bit boring. The 2nd half isn't too bad but the film didn't need any where near the run time. I would say it's most like The good girl with

August 31, 2008
Deano78

Super Reviewer

Waitress walks a very fine line between being a slice of life and a complete caricature of Middle America, but somehow, it's to the film's credit. It's a disorienting and unique movie, changing tone every few scenes and making you consistently wonder what will happen next, but I'm not convinced that this was the

December 26, 2007
danperry17

Super Reviewer

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