That was my favorite film of hers.
It's infuriating to think that the cretinous nothing of a creature who's responsible for taking her life will be living out the rest of his years on the taxpayers' dime.
Posted on 05/07/2007 3:35:19 PM PDT by Wrathswraith
There is an image at the conclusion of Adrienne Shelly's "Waitress" that producer Michael Roiff can't get out of his mind. It's of Shelly's young daughter, Sophie, walking down a dirt road with her onscreen mother, played by Keri Russell. "Yeah, that's the one that I think is the hardest for all of us," Roiff says.
What makes it hard is that Shelly died last November, shortly before the film was accepted to the Sundance Film Festival, where it subsequently became a hit (it opened in New York last week). Now, of course, Shelly will never know what became of the two things she was proudest of.
"What Adrienne strove for in the film is kind of what we're going through in real life, which is that happy and sad are not compartmentalized," Roiff says. "You don't get to have four years of happy followed by a year of sad. In the same moment you can be ecstatic and devastated. It's all rolled up into one."
The film is about a small-town waitress, Jenna (Russell), whose plans to run away from her pathetic husband (Jeremy Sisto) are complicated when she becomes pregnant. She doesn't want the kid but decides to have it anyway and ends up having an affair with her ob-gyn (Nathan Fillion). Supporting her are fellow waitresses Cheryl Hines (brassy) and Shelly herself (mousy) and diner owner Andy Griffith (crotchety)...
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I loved that movie “Trust.” She is missed, very much.
That was my favorite film of hers.
It's infuriating to think that the cretinous nothing of a creature who's responsible for taking her life will be living out the rest of his years on the taxpayers' dime.
:P
Still, a pretty good movie all things considered.
Thanks - something to look for on video! I remember the story about the murder, of course, but as I’m not a follower of indie-film, I didn’t have any context.
Adrienne never really wanted to be an actress. She was ambivalent about her success in that arena, to say the least. When THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH played Sundance and she was the mega-hot toast of the festival, she hid in her hotel room and read a book. Those two Hartley films could have launched a very successful Hollywood career, but she chose to do out-of-the-way theatre and more low-budget independent films. She didn't want to be an actress, she was determined to write and direct (and act in) her own films.
Aside from the incredible love she shared with her family and friends, she that was her single-minded goal: she wanted people to sit in a theatre and have a good time watching her movies. And so, yes, she was focused on Sundance. That was where she felt her life-long dream would come true. I say would come true, not could come true. Adrienne was not a woman who hoped; Adrienne was a woman who knew. All she needed was for the programmers to open the gates and let her in.
Shelly was not afraid to stand up to Pillco and fought hard for her life...Adrienne Shelly put up a battle....If only spineless politicians in both parties who have created a ripe atmosphere for such crimes would do the same.
The horrifying murder of Adrienne Shelly is just the latest addition to the human toll of open borders that no one in Washington wants to tally.
Unless Americans of all political stripes band together to stop the coming amnesty, Washington will adopt another disastrous policy that values the "cheap labor" of illegal alien murder suspect Diego Pillco over the life of a beautiful wife and mother whose only crime was to stand up to a lawless thug.
Your New Yorker perspective is always interesting. We’re so provincial here in the Southern Suburban Sprawl ... don’t notice what’s going on in the Big City.
I loved “The Waitress”, especially the scene where she finally tells her husband to take a hike. This was a great movie. Funny and tragic and warm.
i just saw this movie-waitress-i loved it!!!!!!
i just found out today that she was dead-how devistating!!!
i’ll pray for her family!!!
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