Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

Fri 08 Aug 2007WaitressWaitressis an affecting comedy-drama about lived-in lives, writes Michael DwyerCoincidentally opening here within a fortnight of each other this month, Waitressand Knocked Upare thoroughly entertaining American romantic comedies, each of which charts the complicated consequences for a young woman when she learns she is pregnant for the first time. Alcohol is a factor in both of these unplanned births.