Genre: Drama, Comedy
Tagline: No one's gonna make it big here.
Plot: A hilarious comedy about frustrated waiters, stingy tippers and dicey food, Lions Gate Films' WAITING… stars Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris and Justin Long as young employees battling boredom at Shenanigan's, a generic chain restaurant. A waiter for four years since high school, Dean (Justin Long) has never questioned his job at Shenanigan's. But when he learns that Chett, a high school classmate, now has a lucrative career in electrical engineering, he's thrown into turmoil about his dead-end life. Dean's friend Monty (Ryan Reynolds) is in exactly the same boat, but he couldn't care less. More concerned with partying and getting laid by underage girls, Monty is put in charge of training Mitch (John Francis Daley), a shy new employee. Over the course of one chaotic shift, Mitch gets to know the rest of Shenanigan's quirky staff: Monty's tough-talking ex-girlfriend, Serena (Anna Faris), Shenanigan's over-zealous manager, Dan (David Koechner), and head cook Raddimus (Luis Guzman), who's obsessed with a senseless staff-wide competition known only as "The Game"... Featuring stoned busboys, unsanitary kitchen antics, and lots of talk about sex, WAITING… is a hysterical, behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant industry, and an affectionate ode to those lost, and thoroughly
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 "Waiting..." is melancholy for a comedy. It's about dead-end lives at an early age, and the gallows humor that makes them bearable.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
The trouble is that too much has been crammed into one film, making it feel padded and exhausting. You want to tell the movie, "Relax, buddy. You don't have to cover everything. Just take it easy. Oh, and you left the seat up again. B---Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
You can’t wait for the movie to end, and he’s a major reason why. “Waiting” is a threadbare production, obviously made on a shoestring. The settings are nondescript, and the washed-out cinematography by Matthew Irving exaggerates their shabbiness. McKittrick’s direction combines aimlessness and overemphasis. F--Frank Swietek
McKittrick really lucked into his cast, and he wastes their potential routinely in pursuit of dated comedy stylings that have long sense gone out of vogue. "Waiting" had potential, but without an actual filmmaker behind it, it just falls apart.  --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
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| Cast |
Ryan Reynolds
Blade: Trinity, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, The Amityville Horror |
 | Anna Faris
Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Scary Movie 3 |
 | Justin Long
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Galaxy Quest, Jeepers Creepers |
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 | Chi McBride
I, Robot, Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Terminal |
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| Music By |
Adam Gorgoni
Blue Car, Candyman: Day of the Dead, In the Shadows |
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