Waitress a Beauty
… her [Adrienne Shelly] final project is a beauty. Keri Russell gives her first fully formed, grown-up performance as Jenna, a diner waitress who’s thinking about leaving her abusive husband when she finds out she’s pregnant. Touches of surrealism, a sweet flirtation, and lots of pie mark Waitress as a confection, but an undercurrent of melancholy and Jenna’s difficult choices keep it from floating away once the credits roll.