Lovable, intimate inspirational story (9/10)

“Baby don’t you cry, gonna make a pie,
gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle.
Baby don’t be blue, gonna make for you,
gonna make a pie with a heart in the middle.
Gonna make a pie from heaven above,
gonna be filled with strawberry love.
Baby don’t you cry, gonna make a pie,
and hold you forever in the middle of my heart.”
— Jenna

Jenna (Keri Russell—no relation to Kurt) sings this tender little ditty a couple of times toward the end of the movie.  It’s a tune her mother taught her, sang to her, when she was a little girl growing up in a small town in the Deep South.  As the credits for Waitress unfurl we see a young woman’s hands making pie after pie full of scrumptious innards with moist, thick golden crusts, then we learn the woman’s name is Jenna and she works for the local diner… which has a far and wide reputation for serving these hand-made pies “from heaven above.” Continue reading →