Waiting...

2005 "What happens in the kitchen ends up on the plate."

Waiting...

6.7 | 1h34m | R | en | Comedy

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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6.7 | 1h34m | R | en | Comedy , Romance | More Info

Released: October. 07,2005 | Released Producted By: Lions Gate Films , LIFT Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Ryan Reynolds , Anna Faris , Justin Long

Director

Morgan Blackledge

Producted By

Lions Gate Films , LIFT Productions

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Reviews

pbehan-01740 If you have ever worked in a restaurant you know these characters. I have worked in restaurants for 18 years and I have worked with every character in this movie. I have been half the characters. Everything except the remake steak scene is completely accurate. I have never seen anyone messs with someone's food. I have done whip-its in the cooler, have preyed on young hostesses, partied every night and slept my way through an entire serving staff. I don't trust anyone that works or has ever worked at a restaurant that hasn't seen this movie.

balsamic-83888 We just bought the movie because was rated 6.8 stars but couldn't watch until the end. It was so bad...... I don't know how it got 6.8 stars....

ivan2012 Don't watch this! This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It is filled with attempts at crude sexual humor. However, none of it is funny. I didn't laugh even once. It was so bad I stopped watching after about 45 minutes, and spent another minute fast forwarding through the remainder of this poor excuse for a comedy. The film is so slimy and repulsive that I lost respect for certain actors who played a role in this film such as Ryan Reynolds and Luis Guzman. Justin Long was also in it, but I'll give him a pass since his character wasn't as sleazy as the others. Ignore the 6.9 rating given to this film by IMDb users and avoid wasting 1.5 hours of your life on this. If you want something that's actually funny, watch the Naked Gun or Austin Powers.

sharpobject2424 In sharp contrast to the majority of advocates for this movie, I can provide refutation to the idea of its esoteric appeal because I also have worked in my share of restaurants and found no pleasure in watching this sleaze. You don't have to have such experience to become easily nauseated by the superficial atmosphere of community and collectivism that is about as force-fed in this flick as a real dead end job. I will not bother to write much about this one because it simply doesn't deserve the attention, and aspire only to warn others to avoid it unless they happen to be a preteen or otherwise entirely devoid of taste. If it weren't for the competent editing and cinematography this movie would have scored absolutely no stars from me, but instead I give it two for the effort. In a nutshell, the funniest actors in this movie (Long, Faris) play straight roles that brink pretentious, and the wild card in Ryan Reynolds is under utilized by a typical typecast of being "the dick". And WHAT a dick he is. His character would be the sole source of WAITING's sexist undertones if the women characters weren't so poorly written. The plot is shallow, as expected, but is made worse by the futile effort to portray a seriously conflicted protagonist who juggles a mirage of "important" choices. The intended setpiece is a scene consisting of the restaurant staff collaborating to botch the dinner of some unruly customer in the least imaginative, yet most disgusting way possible. Yes, the sole source of amusement in this movie is gross-out humor, placing it in the category of the lowest form of entertainment there is besides pornography.