"WAITRESS" - MOVIEHOOVIE GRADE: C+
(1st watch -- 10/6/15 -- DVD)
I love this chick on the far right - Adrienne Shelly. She's in two of my favorite films: "The Unbelievable Truth" and "Trust". And she was real-life murdered before she got to see this movie of hers come out to theaters, after writing, directing and co-starring in it. A damn terrible shame. So checking out some of Shelly's other work in her too-short career held an interest for me.
Unfortunately Shelly didn't write love interests (Keri Russell and Nathan Fillian) I could side with, so the movie kind of fell apart; both characters are married people who have an affair with each other, which would be alright (cinematically, if still not morally) if Fillion's wife were depicted as a shrew - instead she's depicted as really nice and never gets to know! (Yeah, the husband's a jerk at least.) And every (other) character is depicted as lovable despite all this!
So Adrienne Shelly's character depictions and plot lost me almost entirely after introducing the affair, despite some otherwise great scenes of charming dialogue, good acting and capable if unremarkable direction. Adrienne Shelly left us with one last adorable performance at the very least.
Unfortunately Shelly didn't write love interests (Keri Russell and Nathan Fillian) I could side with, so the movie kind of fell apart; both characters are married people who have an affair with each other, which would be alright (cinematically, if still not morally) if Fillion's wife were depicted as a shrew - instead she's depicted as really nice and never gets to know! (Yeah, the husband's a jerk at least.) And every (other) character is depicted as lovable despite all this!
So Adrienne Shelly's character depictions and plot lost me almost entirely after introducing the affair, despite some otherwise great scenes of charming dialogue, good acting and capable if unremarkable direction. Adrienne Shelly left us with one last adorable performance at the very least.
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