Waitress (2007)
by Elizabeth Grant Thomas
When a friend of mine, a fellow new mother, started a blog about “making pies and raising Baby,” I asked her if she had seen the film Waitress. When she said she hadn’t, I gushed: “Oh, you have to! It’s about this woman who finds out she’s pregnant, and she…
I asked Elizabeth, a friend of mine from high school, to write a piece for BWDR, and she turned in this wonderful essay on Waitress, motherhood, and personhood. You should definitely go read it - and also see the film if you ever get the chance, because it’s an often overlooked “gem” in the truest sense of the word. I still remember crying in the theater as the credits rolled…
