Waiting for the Light (Dub Sub)

Starring:Louis Guzzo, Colin Baumgartner, Teri Garr, Hillary Wolf, Shirley MacLaine, Jeff McCracken, William Dore, Amanda Arguello, Michelle Wartman, Robert Hardwick, LeChelle Anne Goncalves, Robin Ginsburg, Arthur H. Cahn, Lyn Tyrrell, Matt Magnano, John Bedford Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, Mark Drusch, Chester Bendt, George Williams (IV)
Director: Christopher Monger
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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The bitter, vengeful world of waiting tables gets the Clerks treatment in Waiting.... A new employee (John Francis Daley, Freaks and Geeks) gets trained at Shenanigan's, a banal theme restaurant where the bored employees play a game of flaunting their genitals. The staff includes a snarky waiter (Ryan Reynolds, Van Wilder, The Amityville Horror) who lusts after the underage hostess; a waiter suffering from crippling pee-shyness (Robert Patrick Benedict, Threshold); an oracular dishwasher (Chi McBride, Roll Bounce); and a conflicted waiter named Dean (Justin Long, Dodgeball), who's just been offered a promotion to assistant manager--a job that offers more money, but threatens to trap him at Shenanigan's for the rest of his life. Waiting... is a loose shamble of a movie--the only thing resembling a story is Dean's life crisis--but that's part of its charm. It's a tricky thing to depict tedium without being tedious, but Waiting... pulls it off; some jokes smack of forced sitcom writing, but most of the humor feels genuine, as if it came from writer/director Rob McKittrick's personal experience. A future cult film. Also featuring Anna Faris (Lost in Translation), Luis Guzman (The Limey), and rabidly adored stand-up comic Dane Cook as..a cook. --Bret Fetzer

Description

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, 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.

Customer Reviews:

Another underated comedy from Ryan Reynolds.......2007-06-28

This movie is to restaurant workers as Super Troopers was to cops. A very funny movie. Much love to the goat!

WAY FUNNIER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE! .......2007-06-13

It is always a good feeling to watch a movie that you think is not going to be that good and getting more than you bargained for! This movie is pretty damn funny and I laughed out loud many times watching it. Not much plot,just low brow humor at it's best! The DVD has a great transfer and some funny extras.

this movie is hilarious.......2007-04-20

this is a really funny movie. although the guy from the mac commercials is a tool, but he is the lame dude in all the funny movies lately, he sucks, but the rest of the movie sucks. oh yeah and dane cook blows too, i wouldnt of known he was the cook if my brother didnt tell me. but besides those two cakes, the movie is really funny worth buying a cheap copy of on amazon fo shizzle

Funny as hell.........2007-04-10

this movie is hilarious. i thought it was funny as hell. it was kind of disgusting. but funny. I really can't say more than what i did. see the movie man.

It's okay, more Dane Cook please!.......2007-03-08

This was an OK comedy. It could have been way better seeing as it had the benifit of comedic genius Dane Cook and the minds that brought us Van Wilder. If you have worked at a restaurant like Fridays or Applebees, it would probably be funnier, but it missed a mark and leaves the watcher unfulfilled. It'll pass teh time though. I suggest you rent this one.

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Waiting... (Unrated and Raw) [Blu-ray]
Starring: Don Brady , Pat Hazell , Wendie Malick , Luis Guzman , and Alanna Ubach
Director: Rob McKittrick
Manufacturer: Lionsgate
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: Blu-ray

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ASIN: B000PMGS6S
Release Date: 2007-07-17

Description

Always remember the cardinal rule of eating out: Never mess with people who handle your food! Ryan Reynolds (VAN WILDER), Anna Farris (the SCARY MOVIE series) and Justin Long (DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY) star in this hilarious comedy about the band of mischievous waiters, waitresses and cooks just waiting to show guests how extraordinary the service at ShenaniganZ restaurant can be.

Waiting... (Two-Disc Full Screen Edition)

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I'm still waiting
Incredible

Waiting... (Two-Disc Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Don Brady , Pat Hazell , Wendie Malick , Luis Guzman , and Alanna Ubach
Director: Rob McKittrick
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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ASIN: B000CPH9Q6
Release Date: 2006-02-07

Customer Reviews:

I'm still waiting.......2006-07-20

Workplace comedies are something that strike a chord in us all -- most people have held less-than-glamorous tuition-paying jobs, and sometimes resented the people we have been forced to deal with politely. No tips. Annoying coworkers. Twerpy customers who just don't get it, at all.

That's the main idea of Rob McKittrick's "Waiting...", a pale imitation of Kevin Smiths' breakout film "Clerks." It could have been a delightful comedy in the vein of "Office Space," but alas, we get a pale, rather cliched comedy with a few gem-like moments.

Mitch (John Francis Daley) is starting his first day on the job at Shenanigan's, and he rapidly learns that the ropes are tangled and grubby. There's a philosophical dishwasher (Chi McBride), a smart-aleck, the nice guy with issues, a snarling dominatrix, and a sexpot waittress. And that's only the beginning...

Though Shenanigan's seems normal, there are drunken parties, crazed employees, and food seasoned with dandruff. With disdain for the customers and for each other, the employees spar, stare, and make jokes that will instantly offend gays, women and people with Down Syndrome. Can Dean (Justin Long) manage to get a decent job, or will he sink into the mire of Shenanigan's kitchen?

Anybody who has ever worked a minimum wage job like this will know that it's a gold mine for comedy. I myself have fond memories of a coworker going ballistic when a customer demanded that she spread the cream cheese for him. Unfortunately, that kind of delightful comedy isn't present. Instead, we get armpit-noise-level stuff -- bodily substances being spread on food, and so on.

Even crude films can be funny... but this one isn't. It's just moronic. McKittrick tries to spice it up with stuff like the "Penis Game" and workplace Lolitas, but it's a bit like trying to rescuscitate a week-old dead moose. Even the name of the restaurant is lame -- okay, Shenanigan's, we get it. The place has shenanigans. It's not really very funny anyway.

The characters are all cliches of the slacker worker, and they are so uniformly nasty that you really hope they rot behind those counters. It's a credit to the actors that they manage to inject any humour at all; Daley of "Freaks and Geeks" fame is the most entertaining character of all, and the only one that shows a spark of life.

The only thing that could be as bad as working at Shenanigan's is watching a gross-out comedy full of obnoxious stereotypes. You won't laugh. You'll just leave feeling bitter and queasy.

Incredible.......2006-01-12

This is an incredible movie. I saw it in theatres the day it came out. I have my phone alarm set for the minute I get out of school on Febuary 7th (when it comes out on DVD) to go get it.

BUY IT

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Hilarious comedy - highly recommend it!
Hilarious, True and Funny
AWESOME MOVIE!!!

Waiting... (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Don Brady , Pat Hazell , Wendie Malick , Luis Guzman , and Alanna Ubach
Director: Rob McKittrick
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Release Date: 2006-02-07

Customer Reviews:

Hilarious comedy - highly recommend it!.......2006-08-02

What "Office Space" is to Dilbert-like cubicle dwellers, this movie is to restaurant workers. The movie follows one day in the life of a kitschy, Chili's or Applebee's-style restaurant known as ShenaniganZ, and the various personalities that work there. Every hilarious situation that a typical retaurant might have is shown, from bitchy customers (who then get "very special" treatment of their food) to busboys who are gangsta rapper wannabes, to a waiter who has a phobia of using public restrooms, to a waitress who yells at the top of her lungs at every little thing that ticks her off, to perhaps the funniest long-running joke in the movie, the infamous "penis-showing" game, where the cooks attempt to display their genitals to unwitting fellow employees as part of a point system. Contorting the genitals into various shapes, like the "goat" the "brain" and the "batwing" earn you extra points.

Just non-stop hilarity, with all the typical customer archetypes represented as well - the bitchy woman, the redneck hick, the foreigners who pretend that they don't speak English or understand American tipping ettiquette, to an old classmate who drops in to taunt his less-successful former chum.

Not as gross or raunchy in style as the "American Pie" series, this movie is still a bit edgy and I wouldn't watch it with small children.

Hilarious, True and Funny.......2006-03-31

Anybody who has ever worked in any service industry should and can appreciate this movie....As a Floor Capitan in an above average resturant I would have sworn they filmed it in my establishment at times....As I watched - I saw so many people that fit the characters in the movie in my own place....As the saying goes on the box - "Never upset anybody who comes in contact with your food!" This goes along with what my own father told me when we first came to the USA. People get off your cell phones and watch this hilarious movie.

AWESOME MOVIE!!!.......2006-03-03

I thought it was like Clerks but in a restaurant instead of a convenience store.
However I would love to know why the full screen version costs so much more than the widescreen version. I didn't pay $3000 for my 53" TV to have only a 25" picture.

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A yearly favorite
Shirley MacLaine and Teri Garr were a great team!
Shirley & Teri... A GREAT team!
It is a great movie with a funny plot.

Waiting for the Light (Dub Sub)
Starring: Louis Guzzo , Colin Baumgartner , Teri Garr , Hillary Wolf , and Shirley MacLaine
Director: Christopher Monger
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ASIN: B00007GZRR
Release Date: 2003-02-18

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"Jesus hits like an atom bomb," or so claims the spirited gospel tune that opens this inspired tale of practical jokes and providence during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The criminally underused Teri Garr is marvelous as the single mom who moves her irrepressibly theatrical Auntie Z (Shirley MacLaine in gypsy fortune teller regalia) and two prank-loving kids from Chicago to rural Washington State. Promises of good behavior to the contrary, Auntie Z whips up a flash powder and sleight-of-hand gag for their bitter hermit of a neighbor. A twist (of divine intervention?) transforms the prank into a holy vision and the rush of faith in their reborn neighbor spreads as the cold war heats up. Writer-director Christopher Monger refuses to ridicule any of his characters in this unjustly neglected comedy, a smart, sly, and ultimately profound portrait of the power of faith and forgiveness in times of fear. --Sean Axmaker

Description

Get ready for a wild and wacky comedy about a zany family diner where miracles are the order of theday! Starring Oscar® winner* Shirley MacLaine and Oscar® nominee** Teri Garr,Waiting for the Light is a "warm, endearing" (Variety) and "offbeat original" (Gannett News) that's "a triumph in every way" ("Cinema Showcase")! When single mom Kay Harris (Garr) inherits a failing small-town diner, her eccentric Aunt Z (MacLaine) attempts to liven things up with a 'ghostly' practical joke. But when Z suddenly suffers a stroke and her spirited prank is mistaken bythe townspeople for a spiritual vision, Kay soon discovers that it'll take a real miracle to bring her community and her family back together! *1983: Actress, Terms of Endearment **1982: Supporting Actress, Tootsie

Customer Reviews:

A yearly favorite.......2007-06-27

We have been watching this movie at least once a year for 13 years. It was especially good when everybody in the family was bummed out or just needed to lighten up a bit.

Shirley MacLaine and Teri Garr were a great team!.......2000-08-30

Shirley and Teri were wonderful together in this movie! Teri was wonderful doing this role as in other role she's done. Shirley must have done so much hilarious stuff that one time I saw it, I feel off the bed and choked because of the funninest things she did. All in all, this was a great movie and one Shirley and Teri's best movies.

Shirley & Teri... A GREAT team!.......1999-10-27

A very funny, if not off beat comedy. Shirley is at her best as is Teri Garr! If you're looking for something... wandering up and down he video isle, look for this video! It will definatley cheer you up!

It is a great movie with a funny plot........1999-06-08

This movie is funny, different, and exciting. Shirley MacLaine does a great job at playing her character as se always does. It is well worth buying. Teri Garr and Shirley MacLaine are a great team and preform wonderfully together.

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Waiting
Starring: Don Brady , Pat Hazell , Wendie Malick , Luis Guzman , and Alanna Ubach
Director: Rob McKittrick
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
ProductGroup: DVD
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Release Date: 2006-02-07

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