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  • 2023
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 2 h 24 m
  • 2023
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 2 h 24 m

Summary Waitress: The Musical brings the Tony-nominated, Broadway phenomenon to the big screen. Featuring composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim a long-forgot...

Directed By: Diane Paulus, Brett Sullivan

Written By: Jessie Nelson, Adrienne Shelly

  • 2023
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 2 h 24 m
  • 2023
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 2 h 24 m

Waitress: The Musical

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary Waitress: The Musical brings the Tony-nominated, Broadway phenomenon to the big screen. Featuring composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles as Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest in a nearby county offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim a long-forgot...

Directed By: Diane Paulus, Brett Sullivan

Written By: Jessie Nelson, Adrienne Shelly

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90
Dec 7, 2023
Baking up a storm of humor and heart, the pro-shot Broadway production with Bareilles leading the charge is the perfect treat this holiday season.
By Tania Hussain FULL REVIEW
88
Dec 7, 2023
The show is smoothly staged before an appreciative audience, with well-chosen theatrical touches.
By Nell Minow FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 7, 2023
Sara Bareilles headlines this adaptation for which she wrote the lilting songs, in a show that manages to be alternately sweet and silly, touching and raunchy.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
75
Dec 4, 2023
The film accomplishes its principal goal of capturing Sara Bareilles’s spectacular take on Jenna Hunterson, especially in its close-ups of the singer-songwriter.
By Dan Rubins FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 7, 2023
This is Bareilles’s show in every way. While she doesn’t quite match the emotional subtlety of Jessie Mueller, who originated Jenna, she has grown in leaps and bounds as an actress and provides a warm anchor for the movie.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Dear Hope Productions, National Artists Management Company, Night and Day Pictures, Steam Motion and Sound, PJM Productions
Release Date Dec 7, 2023
Duration 2 h 24 m
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Website https://waitressthemusical.com/
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