Still Waiting... (2009) poster
2009 · comedy

Still Waiting...

Directed by Jeff Balis1h 30m2009
ElsewhereIMDb4.96k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • cold
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After Shenaniganz loses all its hottest waitresses to new competitor Ta-Ta's Wing Shack -- where the scantily clad wait staff earns bigger tips -- the Shenaniganz staff aims to give Ta-Ta's its just desserts.

Our read · Still Waiting... (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want raunchy crude restaurant comedy full of sex jokes.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 1/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou want tasteful humor or dislike topless nudity and crude talk.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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