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- Jenna: 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, without an ounce of selfishness to it.
- Jenna: Cal, are you happy? I mean, when you call yourself a happy man, do you really mean it?
- Cal: You ask a serious question, I'll give you a serious answer: Happy enough. I don't expect much. I don't get much, I don't give much. I generally enjoy whatever comes along. That's my answer for you, summed up for your feminine consideration. I'm happy enough.
- 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.
- Jenna: I was addicted to saying things and having them matter to someone.
- Jenna: [singing to her toddler daughter Lulu] Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle/Baby don't be blue, gonna make for you, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle/Gonna make a pie from heaven above, gonna be filled with strawberry love/Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, and hold you forever in the middle of my heart.
- 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 sur
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Keri Russell’s Best Performance Is in a Movie That Became a Beloved Musical
Keri Russell, who is currently starring in Elizabeth Banks' Cocaine Bear, has been around Hollywood for quite a while. We were first introduced to the actress at the tender age of 16 when she appeared in the Walt Disney-produced Honey, I Blew Up the Kids opposite Rick Moranis in 1992. It wasn't until she claimed the titular role in Felicity later in 1998 that the California native would become a household name. The drama from young upstarts J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves about a young woman with a beautiful and magnificent coiffure coming of age in New York City as a college student was a cultural sensation for 4 seasons at the turn of the millennium. Since then, Russell has graduated into more mature adult roles in the hit FX television series The Americans, and big screen roles in We Were Soldiers, Mission Impossible III, and Dawn of the Planet Apes. But there is one role in particular that stands out among the bevy of projects she has worked on over a 30-year career. In Waitress, the 2007 film written and directed by Adrienne Shelly, Russell is at her very best
Related: Adrienne Shelly Documentary Trailer Showcases the Tragic Life of the 'Waitress' Filmmaker
'Waitress' Is a Small Independent Film With an Enduring Legacy
Waitress premiered at the 2007 Sundance Festival and was made on a shoestring budget of just $1.5 million, but returned an impressive $22 million at the box office. It is the story of Jenna Hunterson (Russell) a waitress at a small-town pie diner who feels stuck in her monotonous and insignificant life as an unhappily married woman. Her life consists of baking pies and trying not to get pregnant by her controlling and abusive husband Earl (Jeremy Sisto). She yearns for something more, and initially, it comes in the form of the town's new physician, Dr. Jim Pornatter (Nathan Fillion). Her
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This is such a great film, I felt like I was watching excerpts from person's life. The roller coaster events had me hooked in the first 10 minutes. Adrienne Shelly did a great job directing, unfortunately this is her last film. One can only imagine what she would have created if she was still with us. Definitely worth it!
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Victoria Blade
So good! Unique, funny, surprising, bittersweet love story about starting fresh. So tragic that Adrienne Shelly's life was ended so early. I would have loved to watch her career unfold after this film.
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Hannah Cecere
This is my favorite movie of all time, so excuse me if I'm biased. If I'm ever sad, or feel like my life is falling apart, I go right to this movie. This movie also got me into the Broadway adaption of the plot. Jenna getting pregnant by a man who doesn't love her as he should while working the lowest of jobs and with no college degree makes me think that maybe I do have it together when others are living like this. So thank you for suffering Jenna, you make me feel better. Love this flick.
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Waitress (2007 film)
2007 film by Adrienne Shelly
This article is about the 2007 film that inspired the stage musical. For the filmed recording of it, see Waitress: The Musical.
Waitress is a 2007 American comedy drama film written and directed by Adrienne Shelly, starring Keri Russell as a young woman trapped in a small town and an abusive marriage, who faces an unwanted pregnancy while working as a waitress.
The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it was accepted before Shelly's 2006 murder.Waitress received a limited theatrical release in the United States on May 2, 2007, by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Shelly's supporting role is her final film appearance.
In 2015, Waitress was adapted into a Tony-nominated musical of the same name.
Plot
Waitress Jenna Hunterson lives in the American South, trapped in an unhappy marriage with her abusive husband, Earl. She works in Joe's Pie Diner, where her job includes creating inventive pies with titles inspired by her life, such as the "Bad Baby Pie" she invents after her unintended pregnancy is confirmed. Jenna longs to run away from her marriage and is slowly accumulating money to do so. She pins her hopes for escape on a pie contest in a nearby town, which offers a $25,000 grand prize. However, her husband will not let her go.
Jenna's only friends are co-workers Becky and Dawn, and Joe, the owner of the diner and other businesses, who is a regular customer of Jenna's.
Jenna's life changes after she meets her new obstetrician, Jim Pomatter. He has moved to that town to accommodate his wife, who is completing her residency at the local hospital, and is filling in for the woman who has been Jenna's doctor since childhood. The two are attracted to each other, and over the course of several prenatal appointments the attraction grows. The two eventually initiate an affair.
Prompted by her co-workers' gift of a baby journal, Jenna begins to keep a diary, ostensibly as