Waitress

By
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is the former film critic at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2014.
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Published on May 11, 2007 04:00AM EDT

Adrienne Shelly’s delectable Dixie screwball romp never loses its spry sense of discovery, mixing flavors as brazenly as Jenna (Keri Russell), a pregnant diner waitress, does in her pies. What lifts the audience is the portrait of Jenna awakening to the life inside her.

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