Waiting… (2005)
Storyline
Employees at a Bennigan's-like restaurant (called, creatively enough, Shenanigan's), kill time before their real lives get started. But while they wait, they'll have to deal with picky customers who want their steak cooked to order and enthusiastic managers who want to build the perfect wait staff. Luckily, these employees have effective revenge tactics.
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Cast
John Francis Daley, Alanna Ubach, David Koechner, Justin Long, Dane Cook, Anna Faris, Ryan Reynolds, Wendie Malick, Clay Chamberlin, Luis Guzmán, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kaitlin Doubleday, Skyler Stone, Jordan Ladd, Chi McBride, Max Kasch, Vanessa Lengies, Rob Benedict, Andy Milonakis, J.D. Evermore, Anne Ewen, Travis Resor, Pat Hazell, Jordan Werner, Todd Voltz, Skylar Duhe, Lauren Swinney, Wayne Ferrara
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Reviews
60
Dallas Observer
Many of the dilemmas that are established never pay off, and there is no clear protagonist or antagonist. To make matters even murkier, the movie is poorly shot in visually uninteresting locations with constant soft focus. That said, it's also damn funny.
50
L.A. Weekly
McKittrick cites "Dazed and Confused" as well as "Clerks" as influences, yet he lacks the raw edge of early Smith and the existential drift of Linklater. And if side-splitting laughter is what you crave, Waiting . . . will leave you hungry for a slice of American Pie.
42
Entertainment Weekly
With its sweet stupidity and shoddy production values, Waiting... knowingly evokes bad '80s R-rated comedies, but the differences are telling.
40
The A.V. Club
There's real potential in the premise of young, unmotivated screw-ups logging time at a dead-end restaurant job--a hash-slinging "Office Space," basically--but first-time writer-director Rob McKittrick makes it look like a homemade sitcom laced with profanity.
40
Variety
The wait for laughs lasts the entire length of Waiting ..., first feature from writer-director Rob McKittrick that aims to be a "Clerks"-type comedy set in a chain restaurant but ends up somewhere below a "Porky's" sequel.
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