Waitress

Just saw this movie yesterday. Had some issues with it, but on the whole found it to be a sweet, somewhat uplifting comedy. Here's some random thoughts:

1)There is not a single positive male character in the movie. Not. One.
2)There was insufficient build-up to Fillian and Russell's romance. I didn't see why the characters liked each other, so it seemed false throughout.
3)Not every waitress in a diner looks like Felicity and can cook THE BEST PIES IN THE WORLD. Realism=shattered.
4)Keri Russell is a waitress in a small town. She grows increasingly pregnant. But, her make-up and hair are always perfect, and her face doesn't gain an ounce of weight. Realism=shattered and ground into bits.
5)Andy Griffith was great, and lampooned his image nicely.


I felt horrible when I looked the movie up on-line and saw that the writer/director/actress (she played Dawn) responsible for Waitress had been strangled by her neighbor, a 19 year old illegal immigrant, who she had confronted over noise in his apartment. He was afraid she would make good on her threat to call the police, and tried to make it look like a suicide by hanging. What an awful, awful story.