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This was a netflix movie of Gwen's we watched on Sunday. Starring Keri Russell as a waitress in a small, quirky diner, in a small quirky town, with small quirky people, that specializes in pies. Breakfast pies, savory pies, sweet pies of all flavors. She creates a special pie-of-the-day every day. She is in a loveless abusive marriage, which she has plans to escape from. Then she finds out she is pregnant, and fears she will never get away from her husband. She falls into a not-quite believable adulterous romance with her (married) obstetrician.
The writer/director and co-star, Adrienne Shelley was murdered shortly before the film was completed and released. Which is sort of grim trivia, as trivia goes.
It ends up sort of happily enough though, because it is more the story of a woman learning to be her own savior, learning she is strong and independent and capable of being more and doing more. It is about white knights, and finding you don't actually need to wait around for them. It is a simply told, but rather lovely story about self, and finding your own truth. It is only peripherally about pie, waitressing, and pregnancy.
The best part of the movie is Andy Griffith playing "old Joe" who is old and crochity, but none the less has a bit of a soft spot for Jenna, our pregnant waitress. He steals every scene he is in (Old Joe: [after reading a news column about a woman contemplating suicide] Oh I love living vicariously through the pain and suffering of others.). What a riot.
Quirky and endearing, but not earth-shakingly spectacular, I give it a solid B.
The writer/director and co-star, Adrienne Shelley was murdered shortly before the film was completed and released. Which is sort of grim trivia, as trivia goes.
It ends up sort of happily enough though, because it is more the story of a woman learning to be her own savior, learning she is strong and independent and capable of being more and doing more. It is about white knights, and finding you don't actually need to wait around for them. It is a simply told, but rather lovely story about self, and finding your own truth. It is only peripherally about pie, waitressing, and pregnancy.
The best part of the movie is Andy Griffith playing "old Joe" who is old and crochity, but none the less has a bit of a soft spot for Jenna, our pregnant waitress. He steals every scene he is in (Old Joe: [after reading a news column about a woman contemplating suicide] Oh I love living vicariously through the pain and suffering of others.). What a riot.
Quirky and endearing, but not earth-shakingly spectacular, I give it a solid B.
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