Jenna's Cake - There is no recipe for love

Movie
German title	Jenna's Cake - There is no recipe for love
Original title	Waitress
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2007
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Adrienne Shelly
script	Adrienne Shelly
production	Michael Roif
music	Andrew Hollander
camera	Matthew Irving
cut	Annette Davey
occupation
	Keri Russell : Jenna Hunterson; Nathan Fillion : Dr. Jim Pomatter; Cheryl Hines : Becky; Jeremy Sisto : Earl Hunterson; Andy Griffith : Old Joe; Eddie Jemison : Ogie; Lew Temple : Cal; Adrienne Shelly : Dawn;

Waitress - For love there is no recipe (Original title: Waitress ) is an American film drama from director Adrienne Shelly dating back to 2007 , also wrote the screenplay. She also plays the role of Dawn, the friend of the eponymous leading actress.

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The lovely waitress Jenna is trapped in an unhappy marriage to the egomaniac, choleric, and tyrannical Earl. Together with her two colleagues and best friends, Becky and Dawn, she works in a mediocre diner in a southern coffee shop in the United States, where she only finds fulfillment by baking cakes ( pies ) of imaginative and unique creations that delight customers. An unwanted pregnancy, which she cannot be happy about, makes her want to escape her dreary everyday life, leave her husband and start a new life. In addition, she has been saving money for a long time and is also hoping to win the $ 25,000 for first place in a cake baking competition.

In this situation, she throws herself into a stormy affair with her new gynecologist Jim Pomatter. From then on she is torn between the feelings she feels about Jim and acts out, and her moral principles, which actually forbid her as a married woman to have such a relationship with a married man. Jenna also tries to always be friendly and correct to her fellow human beings. She is the only friend of the rich and grumpy owner of Joe's Pie Diner , Old Joe, and she also has nice words for her always harsh direct superior Cal.

But her relationship with Jim doesn't really offer her a way out because he's married and probably won't leave his wife. Jenna also has to bury the hope of winning the competition because Earl won't let her leave. So it happens that Jenna only finds the courage to start a new life without Earl after giving birth to the sight of her daughter Lulu. She also gives the affair with Jim a pass, although she agrees that Old Joe gives her a lot of money before a major operation. Jenna is now financially independent and opens her own restaurant Lulus pies .

Reviews

“Behavioral-melancholy comedy about the self-discovery of a sarcastic-stoic woman, to which charming supporting characters are placed. Convincingly played, entertaining through a lot of dialogue, even if the comedic recipe doesn't quite work. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Web links

http://www.jennaskuchen-derfilm.de/
Waitress - For love there is no recipe in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Certificate of Release for Jenna's Cake - There is no recipe for love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 599 K).
^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9 .

[FSK-1] Certificate of Release for Jenna's Cake - There is no recipe for love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 599 K).

[2] Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9 .