It's a simple and heartwarming movie, with a lot of joy and sweetness, intertwined with a lot of pain and suffering as well.
It walks the thin line between a controlled and stressful marriage, and a passionate and sensitive love affair. Jenna (Keri Russell) is a waitress in a quaint pie diner, in a small little town. She's a culinary expert in pies, and she names her pie creations after her current situations in life.....'I'm boring pie', 'fall in love pie', 'want to kill earl pie', 'don't want a baby pie', 'want to dance pie', 'want to runaway pie', and so on.
She's married to Earl, a mean and nasty man, and her method of coping is to live a completely fake life. She's trying to save money through waitressing so one day she can run away. As fate would have it, she gets pregnant.
The scene where the doctor (Nathan Fillion) says 'Congratulations on the pregnancy' was neat; she says 'I don't want this baby, I am having it, but I don't want it, so don't patronize me with unnecessary congratulations and feel good statements, not now, not in the months to follow'. And then she has a blazing affair with the doctor...one that seems to start with sheer sexual chemistry but that evolves into genuine love and affection, where they are happy to even just bake together. And in and through her fearsome and fake life, she finds her moments of stolen passion and happiness.
The scene where the doctor (Nathan Fillion) says 'Congratulations on the pregnancy' was neat; she says 'I don't want this baby, I am having it, but I don't want it, so don't patronize me with unnecessary congratulations and feel good statements, not now, not in the months to follow'. And then she has a blazing affair with the doctor...one that seems to start with sheer sexual chemistry but that evolves into genuine love and affection, where they are happy to even just bake together. And in and through her fearsome and fake life, she finds her moments of stolen passion and happiness.
Somewhere along she starts to write letters to her unborn child, a sort of candid journal, and in that starts her process of self discovery....and the rainbow in the end.... she finds within her the courage to say 'No' to both the men.
It's in that moment of courage that she shares her vulnerabilities (expressing her long and deeply guarded emotions with confidence and clarity) and in the acceptance of the vulnerabilities that she finds her strength.
It's in that moment of courage that she shares her vulnerabilities (expressing her long and deeply guarded emotions with confidence and clarity) and in the acceptance of the vulnerabilities that she finds her strength.
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