Waitress, One of the best movies I have watched in the late recent times. Directed by Adrienne Shelly, this movie won five awards, including the Jury Prize at the Sarasota Film Festival for narrative feature, and the Audience and Feature Film awards at the Newport Beach Film Festival.
This story is been revolving in my minds for days and nights now, that I decided to sit and write it off, my head. 
It is a story of a waitress, Jenna, who is blessed with a gift of baking mouth-watering pies, who is trapped in an unhappy marriage with an obnoxious, dominating male and is inconveniently pregnant with his child.
Keri Russell as Jenna, looking at her very face reminds me of the stone - Pearl. That cherubic face, those mournful eyes, those cute lips... This is the first movie of hers I have seen, and already am becoming a great fan of hers. Her inventing pies according to the mood, is on one side hilarious, while on the other, thought-provoking.
Nathan Fillion as the Gyn. Dr. Pomatter, is a handsome guy, who has a position for himself in this movie. She holds an affair with him for sometime, though that is the only thing, unacceptable according to me. It is not that all unhappy married women find thier happiness or comfort in another man's arms. Again it is only my personal opinion, perception differs...
Jeremy sisto, as the abusive husband Earl, is hateful at the very sight. His insecure or rather immature character is so well protraited in every scene, by his very words like, asking her to ask him 'how his day was?' or demanding her to 'promise him that she will not love the baby more than she loves him' and so on. He does not get her a car, for heaven's sake, for he does not want her to go anywhere else! But he has forgotten that, if she wants to go out anywhere, without his knowledge, all she has to do is take a bus!
Adrienne Shelly(writer and Director of this movie) and Cheryl Hines, as Dawn and becky her co-waitresses are her close friends, with whom she holds no secrets. Dawn the lovelorn little mouse in this movie, I never expected her to be the Director! But later knowing about her sad and sudden demise left me gloomy, dejected and unhappy. Seems This is her last creation, after which she was found in her office murdered coldheartedly..
All the characters have lived thier roles in this movie and they seem to endure within our minds, hours after scrutiny. Award winning performance by Keri. My favourite part in the movie is where she holds the newborn and Earl says,
Earl: Hey. You remember what I said - don't you go lovin' that baby too much.
Jenna: I don't love you, Earl. I haven't loved you for years. I want a divorce.
Earl: [laughs] Well, that's not a funny joke. You got this new baby here, you shouldn't be making jokes like that...
Jenna: I want you the hell out of my life. You are never to touch me, ever again; I am done with you. If you ever come within six yards of me, I will flatten your sorry ass and I'll enjoy doin' it.
That is one part, I seriously enjoyed,
Dr. Pomatter: Un-congratulations, you're definitely having a baby.
Jenna: Un-thank you.
These lines are thought-provoking,
Jenna: [voiceover] Dear damn baby, If you ever want to know the story of how we bought your damn crib, I will tell you. Your crib was bought with the money that was supposed to buy me a new life. Every time I lay you down in that damn crib, I'm gonna think, 'Damn baby. Damn Crib. Me stuck like a pin in this damn life.'
Jenna: Dear Baby: If I was writing you a letter, it would probably sounds something like an apology. I know everyone deserves a mama who'd want a nice baby such as yourself... who was also a good wife, a fine member of a society. And I can't rightly say that I'm any of that. And I'm not sure the world is scuh a fine place to bringing you. Many of the people I've met are not worth meeting. Many of the things that happened are not worth living through. And you shouldn't take it personal, Baby... if I don't seem like all the other mama-to-be, jumping all over themselves with joy. I frankly don't know what I got to give you, Baby. What if I leave Earl, and don't win that contest next week, and don't have money? What the hell am I gonna give you then? All my life, Baby, the only thing I wanna do is run away. What kind of mama is that? I wish I could think other things, Baby, like excitement that you with me now... or faith that I'll be a good mama... even if my life ain't such a good place, and the world as I see it ain't so pretty like they'd have you believe in this book. Anyway, writing this letter to you, sounds more like a letter writing to me, don't it? Love, Mama
P.S: I ve already watched it thrice and now am thinking of watching it again.. :))
It is a story of a waitress, Jenna, who is blessed with a gift of baking mouth-watering pies, who is trapped in an unhappy marriage with an obnoxious, dominating male and is inconveniently pregnant with his child.
Keri Russell as Jenna, looking at her very face reminds me of the stone - Pearl. That cherubic face, those mournful eyes, those cute lips... This is the first movie of hers I have seen, and already am becoming a great fan of hers. Her inventing pies according to the mood, is on one side hilarious, while on the other, thought-provoking.
Nathan Fillion as the Gyn. Dr. Pomatter, is a handsome guy, who has a position for himself in this movie. She holds an affair with him for sometime, though that is the only thing, unacceptable according to me. It is not that all unhappy married women find thier happiness or comfort in another man's arms. Again it is only my personal opinion, perception differs...
Jeremy sisto, as the abusive husband Earl, is hateful at the very sight. His insecure or rather immature character is so well protraited in every scene, by his very words like, asking her to ask him 'how his day was?' or demanding her to 'promise him that she will not love the baby more than she loves him' and so on. He does not get her a car, for heaven's sake, for he does not want her to go anywhere else! But he has forgotten that, if she wants to go out anywhere, without his knowledge, all she has to do is take a bus!
Adrienne Shelly(writer and Director of this movie) and Cheryl Hines, as Dawn and becky her co-waitresses are her close friends, with whom she holds no secrets. Dawn the lovelorn little mouse in this movie, I never expected her to be the Director! But later knowing about her sad and sudden demise left me gloomy, dejected and unhappy. Seems This is her last creation, after which she was found in her office murdered coldheartedly..
All the characters have lived thier roles in this movie and they seem to endure within our minds, hours after scrutiny. Award winning performance by Keri. My favourite part in the movie is where she holds the newborn and Earl says,
Earl: Hey. You remember what I said - don't you go lovin' that baby too much.
Jenna: I don't love you, Earl. I haven't loved you for years. I want a divorce.
Earl: [laughs] Well, that's not a funny joke. You got this new baby here, you shouldn't be making jokes like that...
Jenna: I want you the hell out of my life. You are never to touch me, ever again; I am done with you. If you ever come within six yards of me, I will flatten your sorry ass and I'll enjoy doin' it.
That is one part, I seriously enjoyed,
Dr. Pomatter: Un-congratulations, you're definitely having a baby.
Jenna: Un-thank you.
These lines are thought-provoking,
Jenna: [voiceover] Dear damn baby, If you ever want to know the story of how we bought your damn crib, I will tell you. Your crib was bought with the money that was supposed to buy me a new life. Every time I lay you down in that damn crib, I'm gonna think, 'Damn baby. Damn Crib. Me stuck like a pin in this damn life.'
Jenna: Dear Baby: If I was writing you a letter, it would probably sounds something like an apology. I know everyone deserves a mama who'd want a nice baby such as yourself... who was also a good wife, a fine member of a society. And I can't rightly say that I'm any of that. And I'm not sure the world is scuh a fine place to bringing you. Many of the people I've met are not worth meeting. Many of the things that happened are not worth living through. And you shouldn't take it personal, Baby... if I don't seem like all the other mama-to-be, jumping all over themselves with joy. I frankly don't know what I got to give you, Baby. What if I leave Earl, and don't win that contest next week, and don't have money? What the hell am I gonna give you then? All my life, Baby, the only thing I wanna do is run away. What kind of mama is that? I wish I could think other things, Baby, like excitement that you with me now... or faith that I'll be a good mama... even if my life ain't such a good place, and the world as I see it ain't so pretty like they'd have you believe in this book. Anyway, writing this letter to you, sounds more like a letter writing to me, don't it? Love, Mama
P.S: I ve already watched it thrice and now am thinking of watching it again.. :))
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