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      Waitress!

      R 1982 1h 30m Comedy List
      Reviews 21% Audience Score 100+ Ratings An actress (Carol Drake), a writer (Carol Bevar) and a preppie (Renata Majer) wait on tables in a New York restaurant. Read More Read Less

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      Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope This is a movie as sweet as any of the mouth-watering pies featured in it. Rated: A Jun 7, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A film built around a series of rejected Naked Gun/Police Squad! jokes, intertwined with a series of plots that desperately try to go somewhere, but it just doesn't mesh together, as if I was watching three different movies for the price of one. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Three young restaurant waitresses struggle to achieve greater aspirations. Mostly just a string of predictable and dated sight gags with little regard to plot development. Never really gets close to being funny and apparently a career killer too as none of the three female leads ever appeared in a credited role in the film industry again. Could be the worst in the Kaufman and Herz film catalog although there is some stiff competition for that title. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Waitress! plays to 80s Troma's greatest strength..sheer stupidity. The jokes & antics are retarded but if you're a fan of the independent production company you're getting exactly what you came for. If you're not you've been warned. For the most part I am but more often then not I find a full movie a little too much to take. Waitress! bombards you w/ so much it's exhausting. It was about 50 minutes into this & I was finding that I had had my fill of awful jokes & insanity that I had to take a deep breath, sucked it up & trudged onward. Needless to say its low grade charms wear thin especially when you are trying to tie up plot end amongst the chaos. I found this was better done w/ Stuck on You because it's not so fevered but to be truthful there are a lot worse comedies from the era & it never hides what it truly is Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I suppose I'm predisposed to like any Lloyd Kaufman movie just because of how I feel about the guy himself. Even this one, with the levels of stupidity that it reaches, I find very charming. I don't believe I've ever seen so many jokes related to food and people dropping it. It is consistently silly all throughout and because there is a dumb joke every twenty seconds there is always something going on to entertain. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A lot of bad jokes in this movie, and long ones too. There are a few good funny moments, but overall it's not a good movie. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was it's good moments and funny scenes, but the bad jokes overrule them. I wasn't able to watch the entire movie, but what I did see wasn't all that enjoyable, so I wouldn't recommend this movie. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis An actress (Carol Drake), a writer (Carol Bevar) and a preppie (Renata Majer) wait on tables in a New York restaurant.
      Director
      Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 7, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 30m