It's tempting to over praise actress-turned-filmmaker Adrienne Shelly's third feature: It's a marked step forward from her second, I'LL TAKE YOU THERE (1999), which was in turn more accomplished than her debut, SUDDEN MANHATTAN (1997). Shelly was murdered before she could continue developing as a writer and director, and while this, her last film, is extremely uneven and undermined by an excess of quirk, Keri Russell's performance as a pregnant pie-guru is a charmer with a bracing streak convincingly desperate determination.
Waitress Jenna (Keri Russell) works at a Joe's Pie Diner, an off-beat, small-town shrine to the baker's craft. Sweet and savory, open...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
107 mins