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Dominican Rep. Waiting...
- Original title
- Waiting...
- Year
- 2005
- Running time
- 93 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Ryan Reynolds
Anna Faris
Justin Long
Kaitlin Doubleday
David Koechner
Luis Guzmán
Chi McBride
John Francis Daley
Jordan Ladd
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Dane Cook- Max Kasch
Vanessa Lengies- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy | Cooking
- Synopsis
- A 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, 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 crazy 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 unproductive, days of youth.- Critics' reviews
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"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"
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"The filmmaker captures a certain exaggerated verisimilitude, but the comedy is surprisingly flat. The cast sells the occasional one-liner, but a Reynolds smirk can take you only so far."
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"Doesn't serve up enough laughs to build a theatrical following but could find life on video as a takeout item"
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"It's a great premise for comedy, but this thing is too dumb to do it justice"
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"The movie is a clumsy and uninspired mess, which is not to say that it's not funny"
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"It's lewd, crude and socially irredeemable"
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