Waitress

I have movies sent to my home. It's nice. Sometimes, it's nice when you get a movie on your list you weren't expecting yet. I got "Waitress" the other day. It sat on my dresser for a week before I watched it. Not because I didn't have the time but because I had my doubts whether I would like itor not. I saw it sitting there in its yellow and blue packaging...doubting whether I'd watch it or take it to the store and trade it in...so late Fri night I finally turned it on.

I loved it!!! I fell in love with the hero and heroine. It helps that the doctor is soooo good looking but there were some poignant moments that caught me off guard. Keri Russell plays a waitress in a loveless controlled marriage who finds out she's pregnant. The only thing she knows she's good at is making pies. She forms an adulterous relationship with her OB doctor played by Nathan Fillion (from Firefly/Serenity). I wanted her to run away with him...but I won't tell you whether she does or not because that would ruin the story. She wins his heart by making pies. She makes all sorts of pies and thinks up names like "Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser Pie" or "I Can't Have No Affair Because It's Wrong And I Don't Want Earl To Kill Me Pie" or "Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having An Affair Pie" or best yet "I Hate My Husband Pie". She makes the ingredients up in her head as she has down time.

Her waitress friends give her a journal where she is to write letters to the baby. There's one that touches my heart. She writes:
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 and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness in it.

When the affair is at its peak she says "I was addicted to saying things and having them matter to someone".

I ended up watching it twice that night. It's quirky in parts and lovable in others but most of all it made my heart glow.

TTFN