{"id":30471,"date":"2013-04-02T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=30471"},"modified":"2021-02-04T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:39:46","slug":"waitress-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=30471","title":{"rendered":"Waitress! (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Admit it &#8212; you&#8217;re a chauvinist! You hate the idea that my career is just as important as yours.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Poster-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Poster-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn aspiring actress (Carol Drake) working as a waitress at a hectic restaurant owned by her boyfriend (Jim Harris) will stop at nothing to convince a producer (Ed Fenton) to cast her as Joan of Arc; meanwhile, her naive co-worker (Carol Bevar) &#8212; an aspiring journalist &#8212; does &#8220;research&#8221; for a story on how to catch a man, while a young new colleague (Renata Hickey) resents being put to work by her wealthy father.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Feminism and Women&#8217;s Issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nTroma Studios is an independent production and distribution company whose B-films are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Troma_Studios\">&#8220;known for their surrealistic &#8230; nature, along with their use of shocking imagery&#8221;<\/a>. The company&#8217;s most beloved cult hit is <em>The Toxic Avenger <\/em> (1985), but they&#8217;ve released <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Troma_Team_Video_Titles#1981\">quite a few other titles over the decades<\/a>, including this excruciatingly unfunny &#8220;comedy&#8221; centering on the travails of three sexy waitresses. Purportedly written with a feminist sensibility in mind &#8212; two of the three women have bigger career goals, and must fight off either sexual aggression or unwanted male enabling &#8212; the movie is really little more than a trashy low-budget exploitation flick. To its credit, no matter how consistently awful the script is, it&#8217;s never exactly <em>boring<\/em>; the pace is truly relentless, and there&#8217;s always something going on in some corner of the screen to catch one&#8217;s attention (i.e., two bystanders using cables to jump-start a man who&#8217;s just had a heart attack on the street). But the humor throughout is far too low-brow to appeal to most film fanatics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A relentlessly zany sensibility<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany2.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany2-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany2-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Waitress-Zany-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; skip this one. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083312\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popmatters.com\/pm\/post\/112588-tromas-sexy-box-set-squeeze-playwaitressstuck-on-youthe-first-turn-o\/\">Pop Matters Review (of Troma DVD box set)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Admit it &#8212; you&#8217;re a chauvinist! You hate the idea that my career is just as important as yours.&#8221; Synopsis: An aspiring actress (Carol Drake) working as a waitress at a hectic restaurant owned by her boyfriend (Jim Harris) will stop at nothing to convince a producer (Ed Fenton) to cast her as Joan of Arc; meanwhile, her naive co-worker (Carol Bevar) &#8212; an aspiring journalist &#8212; does &#8220;research&#8221; for a story on how to catch a man, while a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=30471\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30471"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68675,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30471\/revisions\/68675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}