Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Keri RussellJenna
- Nathan FillionDr. Pomatter
- Andy GriffithOld Joe
- Cheryl HinesBecky
- Eddie JemisonOgie
- Jeremy SistoEarl
- Adrienne ShellyDawn
- Lew TempleCal
- Darby StanchfieldFrancine Pomatter
- Cindy DrummondHospital Nurse
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
Part feminist fable, part romantic fairy tale, it is by turns tart and sweet, charming and tough, rather like its heroine and like Keri Russell, the plucky, pretty, nimble actress who plays her. - 75
Rolling Stone
This sweetheart of a comedy boasts a hilarious and heartfelt performance by Keri Russell. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Shelly left her daughter - and her audience - a wonderful gift, this movie about the transforming effects of motherhood. Waitress shows how, in giving birth, a woman gives birth to herself - as artist and mother. - 70
Variety
While aspects verge on sitcom terrain, this tale of a pregnant small-town woman caught between a bad marriage and a risky affair is mostly as funny and charming as intended. - 70
Newsweek
Wise, humble and effortlessly funny. - 70
Village Voice
Waitress won't set the world on fire, but it glows. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
Shelly was murdered before she could continue developing as a writer and director, and while this, her last film, is extremely uneven and undermined by an excess of quirk, Keri Russell's performance as a pregnant pie-guru is a charmer with a bracing streak convincingly desperate determination. - 60
Film Threat
Full of off-kilter characters who don't talk like anyone in real life, but sound a truthful chord.
