Waitress (film)

Waitress - For love there is no recipe (Original Title: Waitress ) is an American film drama by director Adrienne Shelly in 2007, who also wrote the screenplay. Furthermore, it acts in the role of Dawn, the girlfriend of the eponymous protagonist with.

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The winsome waitress Jenna is trapped in an unhappy marriage with the egomaniacal, choleric and bullying Earl. Together with their two colleagues and best friends, Becky and Dawn, she works in a mediocre dinner in a Südstaatenkaff the United States, where she finds fulfillment only through the cake baking ( pies ) imaginative and unique creations that delight the customer. An unwanted pregnancy, she is not able to rejoice can grow in their desire to escape their dreary everyday life, to leave her husband and start a new life. To this end, it will save some time and money in addition hopes to win the $ 25,000 first place prize in a cake -baking contest.

In this situation, plunges into a stormy affair with her new gynecologist Jim Pomatter. From then on she is torn between feelings for Jim, she feels and acts out, and their moral principles that you actually prohibit a married woman, such a relationship with a married man. Even otherwise, Jenna tries to be always friendly and correct to their fellow human beings. For the rich and grumpy owner of the restaurant Old Joe is the only friend and also for their always harsh direct supervisor Cal she has kind words.

But the relationship with Jim offers her no real way out, because he is married and his wife probably will not leave. The hope of winning the competition has to bury Jenna, as Earl does not let her go away. It so happens that Jenna at the sight of her daughter Lulu place only after the birth the courage to start a new life without Earl. Also the affair with Jim is a run- pass, where to meet her is the fact that Old Joe gives her a lot of money before a serious operation. So Jenna is henceforth financially independent and opens her own restaurant " Lulu's pies".

Reviews

"Behavior - melancholy comedy about the self-discovery of a sarcastic stoic wife, the charming secondary characters are set aside. Convincingly played, entertaining by a lot of dialogue joke, even if the recipe does not quite comedic rises. "

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