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where's the wedding ring on the dvd?


Take a look at this: http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Waitress/waitress_cover_art_dvd.jpg

After discussing how horrible this movie was, my wife saw the cover of the dvd and mentioned that Dr. Pottamer wasn't wearing a wedding ring. Its obvious that this movie intended to be some sort of romantic comedy and that the ring was removed to make the film look cozier. It was anything but. This movie was a quirky, rarely funny, analysis of failed relationships. There was tons of scenes in which the audience, I assume, is supposed to feel for Jenna and Dr. pottamer, but how in the world could the audience feel that way when Jenna and the Dr. basically skipped courtship and went from hello to bumping uglies in minutes and the dr. was married thew whole time? And it seemed EVERYONE in this movie was cheating. Why all the jokes about a mentally disabled man. Am I supposed to find the wife cheating on him humorous or something? This movie was billed as "sweet" and "romantic"? Obviously, like the omission of the wedding ring on the cover, this was a clear mislead.

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Vaughtdj has clearly missed the point of the film. NOTHING in this movie is black and white. In many ways, Jenna can be a selfish cow. She knows that Dr Pottamer is married, and yet she puts his (apparently) healthy relationship in peril for the sake of her own happiness. It is Joe that brings her back to Earth by reminding her that you cannot buy your own happiness at the expense of someone elses misery, and that if her affair with Pottamer carries on then misery will be the result for everyone concerned. Jenna and the Doc were essentially just '*beep*-buddies'. There was no real love there. We are glad that Jenna is happy, but we are aware that as she sails along in her adulterous affair, there is an iceberg looming on the horizon.

Most of the other characters (male and female) have deeply unsympathetic aspects to their personalities. Almost everyone seems to have a hidden agenda in some way. The only exception to this being Ogie, whom I have dealt with in another post. Even Joe himself 'cheats' by hiding his decent and generous nature behind a mask of callous indifference. He is too afraid to let anyone see how lonely and vunerable he truly is. Only when Jenna stops being self-centered does she become worthy of the task of raising and protecting her daughter. She places her frail body between Earl's rage and that tiny baby and then breaks off the sterile, pointless relationship with the doctor. Jenna is, at last, thinking about others. This is why she triumphs.

Earl is a worthless low-life. But NOBODY in this film is a plaster-saint. That is what gives Shelly's film it's rich and rewarding quality.
I believe these people.

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Sorry...Pomatter, not Pottamer. Otherwise, what Owen said.

Gotta go. Kisses.

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I stand corrected Mtm-63. I should have checked the cast list rather than go by the OP's spelling. Mind you, I must give credit where it's due. I never noticed that on the DVD cover the doctor had no wedding ring. In all fairness, I wan't looking. Wedding rings for men are almost unknown in the UK. Like circumcision and daily showers, they seem to be a uniquely American phenomena.

I wonder if the removal of the ring from the DVD cover was a simple marketing decision, or if it was symbolic act that the doc WOULD remove his ring before he met up with Jenna on a tryst. I must go back over the DVD to see if he wears it later on when they were humping away!

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