Waitress Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

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Plot

Adrienne Shelly's sunny final film is also her most artistically successful and intrinsically marketable directorial effort. An old-fashioned fairy tale that honors the transformative power of female friendship and motherhood, "Waitress" features a dynamic cast led by Keri Russell, whose character will surely do, in a Rachael Ray kind of way, for down home pie-making what the title character of "Babette's Feast" did for Cailles en Sarcophage.

When Russell's character Jenna, a waitress in a cheery southern diner, discovers that she's pregnant, she doesn't exactly jump for joy. Motherhood was never in her plans, and she's already saddled with her needy, jealous and infantile husband Earl (Jeremy Sisto).

At first, things seem hopeless and her dreams for a better life are in ruins, until a good-looking doctor (Nathan Fillion) arrives in town and mixes things up. With the support and love of her friends and co-workers (Adrienne Shelly and Cheryl Hines) at Joe's Pie Diner, Jenna exhibits her skills with crusts and fillings which are particularly appreciated by Joe himself (Andy Griffith). She then gains the courage to embrace independence and create the life of her dreams.

Comedy Romance

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Waitress.

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  Keri Russell

  The Girl in the Park, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

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  Nathan Fillion

  Skincare, Superman

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  Cheryl Hines

  Nine Lives, Popular Theory

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  Adrienne Shelly

• J
  Jeremy Sisto

  As Cool as I Am, Break Point

• A
  Andy Griffith

  Play the Game, Who Stole Santa's Sack?

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  Eddie Jemison

  Bruce Almighty, For Prophet

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  Lew Temple

  Seven Cemeteries, You Gotta Believe

Crew Behind the Film

The Waitress behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's writer Adrienne Shelly last wrote Serious Moonlight and The Morgan Stories.

Director

Adrienne Shelly

Screenwriter

Adrienne Shelly

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