‘Waitress’ (2007) is a romantic comedy that builds on interesting characters performed by competent actors. While I think that an 8.1 rating in the IMDb is too much (‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ has an 8.0), it’s funny enough and it actually has rhythm until the end.
Writer, director and supporting actress Adrienne Shelly was murdered while shooting the film, and I don’t know whether this is the reason for a feeling of incompleteness, of “we have gone this far, and now we don’t know how to give this film a good ending”. It must be the most disappointing happy ending I’ve ever seen.
Do you really want to say Ms Shelly was “murdered” while “shooting” the movie?
Haha, good point. It’s a tragedy then, but fair enough.