can't wait to see this movie

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Adrienne Shelly, left, Cheryl Hines and Keri Russell in “Waitress,” directed by Ms. Shelly, who was murdered in November in Greenwich Village.

i hope it does get released in my area. we do have a couple of 'art house' theaters around, so chances ARE it will

i liked ms shelly a great deal. i discovered her through hal hartley's early movies.

i posted on the foundation her husband set up in her name and her murder

i sure am happy her movie did indeed make it to sundance. sorry she never knew that though (in this lifetime that is)

Sundance Dream Most Notable for an Absence

By DAVID CARR
PARK CITY, Utah
MICHAEL ROIFF could be forgiven for seeming a little discombobulated on Tuesday night. A first-time producer with “Waitress,” one of the higher-profile movies at the Sundance Film Festival here, he had just arrived and was knocking around a rented condominium, trying to figure out where everything was and how to get a flat-screen television to behave for another look at the film.
But something more profound had him at loose ends. Adrienne Shelly, the writer, director and one of the stars of the film, was not there, and she was not coming.
Ms. Shelly was murdered on Nov. 1 in her Greenwich Village office. Although it was initially thought that her death was a suicide because she was found hanging from a shower rod, a construction worker has been charged with murder, accused of staging the scene after an altercation with Ms. Shelly.
Mr. Roiff, who worked with Ms. Shelly for two years on “Waitress” and was continuing to work with her on other projects, talked to her the night before her death.
“We talked about what we always talked about, which was the movie, Sundance and whether it would get in,” he said, idly tapping the remote control.
And it did, although Ms. Shelly, 40, did not know that before she was killed — the selections had already been made, but notifications had not been sent out. She leaves behind a husband, Andrew Ostroy, and a 3-year-old daughter, Sophie, along with a film that offers a tender-hearted rumination on a woman who is trying to find her place as she faces impending motherhood and the constant threat of violence from her brutish husband. The movie evinces sunniness amid all sorts of gloom, a prism on life that should come in handy in the next few days, as friends and family members fly in for its premiere on Sunday. .......

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