Adrienne Shelly’s weirdly wonderful Waitress is now playing at the Balboa. At first, I thought this might be another misguided foray into Southern stereotypes (as a native of Alabama, movies in which non-Southerners attempt Southern accents always put me on guard), but within the first five minutes of the film I was fully invested in the ride. Keri Russell plays a woman who is impregnated by her maniacally controlling husband. She sees her pregnancy as a trap, and throughout the movie she eschews the warm fuzzy feelings that expectant mothers are supposed to have. There’s a delightfully off-kilter play-like...
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