Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Michael Bianchi There is something painfully dark and disturbing about this movie - a film about a waitress (duh) that becomes pregnant by her abusive husband and begins an affair with her gynecologist - that bothered me from the time I stopped watching it. It wasn't the husband, who was so cartoonishly evil that he removed any emotional punch of the abuse storyline as he played less like an actual person than a method actor in the midst of a very poor production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Nor was it the tired trope of women cheating for reasons that humanizes and makes us understand them while men do it because . . . well, men cheat. (The lead character's husband is abusive and selfish in bed - of course - and her coworker's affair is justified by her husband being in a vegetative state and sleeping in a separate room. Both of the men they have affairs with have blameless, wonderful wives they are apparently happily married to.) Nor even the implication that the only good thing a man can do is die as the only major male character not abjectly terrible serves as a deus ex machina who manages to write our saintly heroine an enormous check before having the courtesy to kick the bucket and not be seen again.No, actually, those tropes don't bother me because I could as easily point to a zillion zany guy comedies where women are shrewish, joyless nags or soulless objects of desire who appear long enough to showcase either their fronts or rears and then return to the factory floor to be pulled for the next showcase. It would by hypocritical to find my moral outrage for that.What is uniquely ugly about this film is a device wherein a woman appears in several scenes with her unruly, awful, out-of-control 6-year-old boy - who spends every second of screen time ruthlessly tormenting his poor mother. These are meant to show what Waitress fears about childbirth - and it is apparently having a boy. The implication seems to be strongly that had she not gotten her 'happy' ending of having a girl in the film's climax, she would have simply remained miserable.It is a gross hatred of boys, an equivalent I couldn't imagine in another film. Men are not awful, this film says, because of a patriarchal society that indoctrinates them. It is not the actions of her awful husband or the philandering doctor that ruin a woman's life, but the mere act of being born with a penis. I think the 'pro-life' message so many Christian conservatives are finding in this film would not exist if they did not imply early and often her child would be a girl. I wonder if the writer/director of this film was going through a rough spot in her marriage when writing this? Working out feelings about her father? I read before her tragic death she had a daughter . . . and thank god for that, because I would worry even more about the implications if she'd actually had a son. (I hope, if she did, this aspect would've changed.)Ultimately this disgusting aspect drags a mediocre film with a couple of lights to a level that makes it, well, kind of awful.

SnoopyStyle Jenna Hunterson (Keri Russell) is a pie shop waitress who makes amazing pies with strange names. She is dismayed that her husband Earl (Jeremy Sisto) got her pregnant. He's a controlling, obnoxious, and demeaning. Her best friends are her fellow waitresses Becky (Cheryl Hines) and Dawn (Adrienne Shelly). The owner of the pie shop is Old Joe (Andy Griffith). She's trying to save money to run away from Earl. She wants to enter a $25k pie contest in a nearby town but Earl won't permit it. Then she meets the new doctor Jim Pomatter (Nathan Fillion). She falls for him only that he's already married.It's a whimsical movie about slightly quirky characters by Adrienne Shelly. It's really sad that she got murdered. She showed herself to be an interesting emerging filmmaker. It's more charming rather than laugh out loud funny. The heart of it is the adorably sweet Keri Russell.

lasttimeisaw Director/writer/actress Adrienne's jinxed misfortune (she was killed in a burglary at home) before releasing her second film in 2006 took on a critically unanticipated hype for this indie drama-comedy, starring a haplessly chirpy Keri Russell as the waitress and pie-baker, engrossed over 19 million dollars on the domestic box-office (versus its $2,000,000 budget). I was prejudiced to expect a comedic girl-gone-independent rousing story thanks to the bright-colored poster, multi-montages of garish pies, the risible characters (Hines and Shelly, two co-worker at the pie diner). But soon it was exposed that the film takes on a rather weighty route to probe a matter-of-fact escapism of Keri's character, Jenna's birth (with a new baby on her way) and rebirth (her own life) plan, opening her own pie diner and leaving his fiendish- tempered husband. Apart from all the emotional empathy towards Adrienne, the film calls upon a solid soap-opera plot wisdom to embroider Jenna a down-to-earth plight till an energy- accumulated outburst strikes back to take reprisal for all the miseries she has and also be feasible to a blithe ending. The film certainly possesses its own appeal to a more female-inclined demography, partial because of its not-so-subtle feminism by manufacturing a loathsomely sadistic husband, an adorable but weak-willed married gynecologist as the tryst fantasy, also a wealthy but eccentric old geezer who Jenna befriends with (no spoilers alert, also to render some explicable getaway for the revitalization of her new-born life and baby). Keri Russell acts in her comfort zone and by far it is her best work to widen her realm as a leading character, it's a shame that her recent films are not so-well-received, she is in my top 10 list of BEST ACTRESS in 2007, also R.I.P. Adrienne, may you have peace in heaven!

moonspinner55 The late Adrienne Shelly wrote, directed, and co-stars in this modest comedy wherein a small town pie-maker (who works as a waitress at the diner she makes desserts for!) considers leaving her abusive husband for her handsome--but already-married--obstetrician. To complicate matters, she finds she's pregnant for the first time (after the husband got her drunk one night), though this only seems to sweeten the pot for the doctor, who wants to run off with her anyhow. Keri Russell is very fetching and grounded in the leading role, but her character (who has been making delicious treats her entire life) comes off as an underachiever, with no money and no hope in turning her baking talents into a lucrative profession. Jeremy Sisto's angry, selfish husband fares no better; wouldn't he want his wife bringing home more money...or is he happy struggling along from paycheck to paycheck? The condition that he's so jealous he won't allow her to try for bigger prospects is a lazy, illogical out, and the scenes between husband and wife are both unpleasant and unconvincing. Shelly has created some engaging, folksy supporting roles (such as Andy Griffith's salty proprietor), but because the movie has only one foot in reality, the situations these people are involved in do not come to much. The humor is quirky-cute though not terribly funny, while the Southern milieu, the life in the diner, and the side-threads of romance each fail to come off. ** from ****