The Waitress (2007)

A beautiful movie with carefully interwoven emotions which won’t be really visible if you watch it as any other normal visual saga.
The movie is based upon the life of a lady (Jenna) who works as a waitress at a local pie-baking restaurant. She is portrayed a very calm person, who has wonderful attitude towards life, always ready to help her friends and most importantly, passionate towards her job – making pies. She has a very dominating husband (Earl), and somehow she is drifting through her married life without any really interest or pleasure. At work, she has two fellow waitresses (Becky & Dawn) and a special customer, an old man (the old Joe), to whom no one else is ready to serve, except her. Apart from these characters, there is an obstetrician (Dr Pomatter) around whom the whole story revolves. The movie is an elegant picturisation of the various turns Jenna’s life takes. For each situation in her life, she is shown baking an imaginary pie, and giving them unusual names. For e.g. - I Hate My Husband Pie... You take bittersweet chocolate and don't sweeten it. You make it into a pudding and drown it in caramel. Also, time to time she writes a letter to her unborn baby, discussing all that is going on in her mind. These two means used by the director to unveil Jenna’s emotions and thoughts, give a special touch to the movie. She struggles through her work, a parallel affair with the doctor & an un-accommodating husband, to finally find her blessed with a beautiful daughter, when she decided to break free from all shackles and start afresh.
The movie is a beautiful portrayal of womanhood, true friendship & the vulnerability of an emotionally shattered soul. The soundtrack is fabulous, particularly the pie-song, which she sings to her baby.

Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Baby don't be blue, gonna make for you, gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle. Gonna make a pie from heaven above, gonna be filled with strawberry love. Baby don't you cry, gonna make a pie, and hold you forever in the middle of my heart. (I am still searching for this OST)
Hear the complete song here

Some memorable dialogues from the movie:-
Becky: If you haven’t noticed, my right boob is way up here in Maine and my left boob is danglin' down here in Florida.
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Old Joe: Are you with child?
Jenna: Shush!
Old Joe: I saw that look on a woman's face before. Her name was Annette. I made sweet sweet love to her all through the summer of 1948, and she had that look on her face all through the fall. ++++++++++
Jenna: Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms without an ounce of selfishness in it.

My Rating: $$$$
Director: Adrienne Shelly
Cast:-
Keri Russel – Jenna
Nathan Fillion – Dr Pomatter
Jeremy Sisto – Earl
Genre: Comedy/Romance

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Groundhog Day (1993)

I saw this movie last week and I was completely stumped by the strong message it gave through it seemingly simple and straight story line.

The movie starts with Bill Murray, the lead actor, who is portraying a journalist, start for a nearby city to cover an even called “Groundhog day”. He is accompanied by a producer (the lead actress) and a cameraman. He reaches the place and covers the event and then plans to return the very next day. Next morning when he wakes up he realizes that everything is the same, same program on the radio, exactly the same people he meets on his way out and then he realizes it’s the same day as yesterday … it’s the “Groundhogs day” again. He find the producer waiting for him at the same place to cover the festival. He meets the same people again and they say exactly the same things again.

Then the movie show this cycle being repeated all over … day by day .. daily. Everyday he finds himself living the same day again … the “Groundhog day”. No matter what he does during the day, no matter where he ends up at night, in the morning he is again at his bed, waking up to the same radio program and to the same day. He tries everything, commits crimes and ends up in jail, has sex with total strangers, kills himself, but again the next day he finds himself waking up to the “Groundhog day”.
Then finally he decides to make something good out of all this. He starts learning different things, starts helping different people, because he already knows what wrong is going to happen with whom. Also, he tries to win over the producer, whom he loves secretly. Everyday he learns something new about her and then repeats the things she likes the next day.

Most of the people don’t understand the sense of it when the movie ends. We just tend to think, “Ok, so what next? Where did all this end? OK, he came back to a new day finally, but what after that?”. We usually fail to get the real message. The movie portrays the life of most of us. The way we are stuck in the same dead schedule, day after day. They way we are living the same day again and again. The way we have lost value for the small things around us and the way we have got so busy with things which really don’t matter.

All in all, a gem of a movie. I will really recommend everyone to see this.


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My Rating - $$$$
Director - Harold Ramis
Cast:-
Phil Connors - Bill Murray
Rita - Andie MacDowell
Larry - Chris Elliott?
Genre - Comedy

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