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If only life were as easy as pie
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.
Waitress
2007 Directed by Adrienne Shelly
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Alternative Titles
Pincérlány - Édesen is csípős, La camarera, La Camarera, Garçonete, Serveuses demandées, Jennas Kuchen - Für Liebe gibt es kein Rezept
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i've reviewed over 200 movies and this is the first one that i've gotten to tag as "female director" "female writer" AND "female editor" ........ more ladies behind the camera so that more wholesome Feminist Filmés like waitress (2007) can be made please!
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Dear baby.
I hope someday, somebody
wants to hold you
for 20 minutes straight,
and that's all they do.
They don't pull away.
They don't look at your face.
They don't try to kiss you.
All they do is wrap you up
in their arms
and hold on tight withoutan ounce of selfishness to it.
WHEN SHE TOLD HIM TO GET THE HELL OUT OF HER LIFE, POETIC CINEMA!
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cw: abuse
"All my life, Baby, the only thing I wanna do is run away."
Of the many lines in this movie to resonate with me to the point where I began to cry, this hit the hardest. I have written before about how growing up in a small, repressive town left me with no ambitions but to escape. Jenna's smalltown Southern life, trapped in an abusive marriage, shackled by economic hardship and an unwanted pregnancy, desperately fighting for a piece of understanding or freedom, it's not my life, but that line, that moment, that sentiment reached so much deeper:
It's always been about our bodies.
When Earl makes demands of Jenna, he demands her loyalty, her love, and most…
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Wow. Just... wow. I went into this film knowing nothing about it (despite being a huge fan of the musical adaptation) and I was completely blown away. This is the kind of indie movie that so many indie movies bend over backwards on themselves trying to be.
The world, the characters, the stakes, the emotion — all jaw-droppingly well conceived and effortlessly realized.
A sadness lingered over me the entire time I was watching it though, simultaneously enjoying this beautiful art while also knowing that the writer/director’s untimely death snuffed out the spirit who created it. It’s odd to miss someone you’ve never met (and hadn’t even heard of until recently), but this movie is just so full of life…
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a couple frustrations, but they're basically irrelevant...this is brilliant in the way it allows its protagonists to have feelings and make choices without shaming them. on paper it's a heavy story, which is part of why i avoided seeing it for so long, but i was really impressed with how smoothly this balances out serious themes with humor and positivity. visually, it's charming and whimsical without being obnoxious. it's happy without being corny. the best way to describe it is honest, i think - the characters seem like real people, if a little cartoonish, and the ease with which they interact make the ups and downs feel earned, not manipulative. it's the kind of movie to marvel at because you…
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this movie is so wonderful and sad and im just sadder thinking about adrienne shelly :(
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anyway, i’m writing this letter to you... sounds more like a letter writing to me, don’t it?
i know, adrienne. i know. what a gorgeously-layered sonatine of grace notes you wrote yourself.
i wish you could see how much you wrote it for us too.
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