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""Waitress" has brilliant casting and direction. Whoever did the casting nailed every role no matter how small with the perfect actor. This movie was directed by Adrienne Shelly, who also wrote the screenplay. (She was murdered just before the film's release when she walked in on a burglar in her home office.) The movie is about Jenna (Keri Russell), who is married to a terrible man. Jenna finds out she's pregnant just when she's saved up enough money from waitressing to leave her husband. Russell has a hard, angry face throughout much of the movie, exactly as we'd expect from someone in her position. Her husband, Earl, is played by Jeremy Sisto with totally convincing creepiness as a controlling, needy narcissist. (I don't know where Shelly dredged up his character, but she nailed it in the screen play, and Sisto nailed it in his performance). Jenna falls in love with her doctor (Dr. Pomatter), played superbly by Nathan Fillion. Jenna and Pomatter's scenes range from riotously funn ... "
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"Waitress (2007) seduces you—and that is not necessarily a good thing. Jenna (Keri Russell), the waitress at Joe’s Diner, is adorable and has an exceptionally expressive face. One male critic wrote, “I dare you to sit through Waitress and not fall for Russell. Her face is open like a baby’s and sculpted like a goddess [sic].”Another adoring critic, Prairie Miller, says the movie is a “girl homage to . . . Southern women” which “seduces the audience.” But what are Jenna and the movie saying? "
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"I'll get this out of the way right now: You probably aren't going to see "The Village Barbershop" on any shortlists for Film of the Year. It's not a terribly important movie. It doesn't make any statements and relies on a lot of cliches and "hollywood-ending" plot points. But (and I know this is gonna sound silly) it's got an awful lot of heart, and, in the words of Mark Kermode, "does what it says on the tin." It's a sweet, poignant comedy that delivers decent performances and a mild amount of entertainment. The movie tells the story of Gloria (Shelly Cole) and Art (John Ratzenberger of Pixar fame). Art runs a men's barbershop in Reno. His wife has died, he's lonely, he's kind of a curmudgeon. At the start of the movie, his longtime business partner dies unexpectedly (and inexplicably. It just sort of happens without any kind of announcement). Now, Art is in debt, behind on his rent and needs an extra barber to help run the place. He originally hires the spirited, pregnant Gloria ... "
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"The appeal of the food movie is perhaps best summed up by YouTube user Zenophobius: “Watching people feasting is like watching them ****ing - you can’t help but watch them indulging their primal pleasures. So yes, I guess I love porn and I love a good foodie movie.” Who doesn’t? So, in honor of America’s annual salute to gluttony Thanksgiving, here are our picks for five of the most delicious (yes, we said it) food films of all t "
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Bad Dinner, Good Dessert
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"There's a lot to like in this movie: the design, the pies, the waitresses, the pies, Andy Griffith, the pies, but what I don't like cancels out what I did like, which is why I only gave the film three stars. Jenna's (Kerri Russell) husband Earl (Jeremy Sisto) is the flattest character I have ever seen. I had childhood paperdolls more rebust than this guy. Why is he so clingy? Why, in the name of everything that's good, did she marry the bastard? At one point, on a phone conversation, Jenna mentions that Earl changed since their nuptuals, but that's all we see. This was such an obvious flaw, I felt a little dumb not turning the movie off, but those pies... Thus inspired, I baked an apple tart the next day, so it's a somehow a significant film, even if just to inspire a patiserrie. "
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"Though I first buzzed about an Academy Award nomination for Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight more than a month before his death, I now want to take it all back. I feel all the talk of Ledger’s posthumous Oscar chances will cloud my mind when I finally do see it, and it will probably also cloud the Academy’s judgment, too. Six months from now, when the nominations are announced on January 22 (coincidentally the one-year anniversary of Ledger’s death), if Ledger is not recognized for his role as The Joker, there will surely be an uproar — actually, Hollywood might just up and self-implode. I’m not the only one annoyed by all the Oscar buzz. Terry Gilliam, who directed Ledger in The Brothers Grimm and the upcoming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is ca "
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"In the wake of writer/director/co-star Adrienne Shelly´s death, her final film, "Waitress," has morphed from a "Little Miss Sunshine"-type feel good story into something more: a testament to a filmmaker cut down in her prime. Starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines and Jeremy Sisto, "Waitress" demonstrates a spunk and heart we won´t see from Shelly again. In a small town, Jenna (Russell) is a master pie maker: she dreams up new recipes to go along with that day´s mood. While she is lauded for her skills by the patrons of the pie diner where she works, Jenna´s home life is less positive. Her husband Earl (Sisto) keeps her on a tight leash, taking her money the minute she gets into the car after her shift. When Jenna learns she´s pregnant and realizes a man should treat her like a person, courtesy of new doctor Jim Pomatter (Fillion), she has a decision to make for not only her future, but also for her new daughter. The charm of "Waitress" is ... "
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Shelly serves excellent Final Film
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"WAITRESS (2007) ****rated PG-13 (for sexual content, language and thematic elements) 1 hr. 44 min. written & directed by: Adrienne Shellyproduced by: Michael RoiffIf you like pies, watching a movie comfortably dish out real characters in real situations without apology....lemme give you a tip, Adrienne Shelly's
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"i have a wonderful picture of all my movie ticket stubs from this year in a pile but i can’t get it transferred to my filmblog (yes, i save my ticket stubs and scrapbook them at the end of the year…i know, it’s sad really)! armed with discount movie coupons, i saw 118 movies this year at the theater and, as usual, it was really hard to narrow them down but here’s my list, for what it’s worth. some are from 2006 that i didn’t see until later. my 15 favorite movies at the theater in 2007the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert fordthe diving bell and the butterflythe lives of othersjunothe painted veilonceno country for old men< "
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"Over at Pullquote, the Cinetrix has reminded me of one more movie that fit in with this so-called “Year of the Unplanned Pregnancy” trend: Shoot ‘Em Up. She doesn’t really go into details, though, of how it fits in. So, allow me to elaborate. First off, as far as I recall, the pregnancy isn’t actually unplanned. But no matter, I’m going to have fun with this anyway. So, let’s pretend that Shoot ‘Em Up is a pro-life movie. Despite the fact that the baby in the film is already born, there’s a bad guy trying to kill it. Let’s call him the abortionist (aka the pro-choicer). Then there’s a do-gooder hero who aims to keep the baby alive. Let’s call him the pro-lifer. Guess who wins out in the end? And you thought the movie was just a silly take on the gun control issue. There’s political topics all over the place! As you can probably tell, I’m being a bit ridiculous. But sometimes it’s important to get absurd when you’re dealing with too many serious people out there, and too many year-e ... "
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