Jenna is a young woman living a rather unhappy life in a town in the American South. The highlight of her days is inventing and baking pies at the diner where she works, giving them names like the “I Hate My Husband Pie”. Her life, however, seems to have hit an unpleasant dead-end: as her pie suggests, she no longer loves her chauvinistic pig of a husband and, as if that wasn’t enough, she’s pregnant with his child.
Waitress is about one woman’s determination to dig through the sourness of life in the hopes of finding a layer of sweetness underneath. Premiering only months after lead actress Adrienne Shelly’s tragic death at the age of 40, Waitress features wonderful performances that make for a delicious film, with the right ingredients to hold everything together.
"Shelly deftly achieves a tone pitched between fantasy and reality, its levity belying an astute and humane study of an unhappy relationship steeped in inertia."
— Shauna Lyon
"A simple tale of a girl's determination to dig through the bitterness, and find a layer of sweetness just waiting to be enjoyed."
— Monisha Rajesh
A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.
Spirit Awards
1 nomination
Sundance
1 nomination
Nat. Board of Review
1 win
YES. one of my faves!