Old Joe (Andy Griffith) owns a pie shop where he frequents the same booth every day run by his three feisty waitresses. One is PMS, bold and highly-opinionated (“Curb Your Enthusiam’s Cheryl Hines) one is demure, homely but hopeful (Adrienne Shelly) and one is the unhappily married and knocked-up (Keri Russell). But that’s okay, because she’s having a fling with the cute new town doctor (Nathan Fillion) who also happens to be her obstetrician. He’s in love with her pies and she’s his little tart, if you catch my drift. Oh if life were only as sweet and as easy as pie… The surprising thing about this movie’s dreams, hopes, and thrills of the affair, is that it had one of the worst movie trailers in history, yet that trailer turned into one of the best movies of the year. There is nothing that can describe how special a little and thoughtful film this is. And there is nothing more bitter-sweet than knowing the movies writer and director Adrienne Shelley – who also starred as one of the waitresses – was brutally murdered in November of 2006 and never lived to see this hit the big screen. A movie that will leave you teary-eyed and reminiscent of that special someone, just after you’ve come down off the thrill of remembering heated love. Four tiaras
