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Waitress | New York City
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Budget 20,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 37,939,757 USD
The movie is based on the true story of Phyllis Penzo and Officer Robert Cunningham. For twenty-four years, Penzo served as a waitress at Sal's Pizzeria in Yonkers, New York. Cunningham, a thirty-year veteran of the police force in nearby Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., was a regular customer at the restaurant, well-liked by the staff there. (His favorite dish was linguine with clams.) One day in March, 1984, Cunningham asked Penzo for help picking his weekly lottery numbers. Penzo suggested three numbers, and Cunningham came up with three more numbers on his own. Cunningham jokingly promised that if he won, he would split the winnings with Penzo as a tip. The next day, to Penzo's surprise, Cunningham and his wife came to the diner with the winning lottery ticket in hand. Cunningham's ticket had won $6 million, which he split with Penzo, giving her $3 million. In real life, however (as stated in a disclaimer at the end of the movie), Cunningham and Penzo were both happily married to other people for many years.
The complete coffee shop building was an actual working diner prop that was made from scratch for this movie on a parking lot on the corner of N. Moore Street and West Broadway in TriBeCa, across the FDNY Ladder 8 building. Diner exterior and interior shots were done on location. After filming it was completely taken down.
Madonna and Marisa Tomei turned down the role of Yvonne Biasi.
Released in the UK in the same week that the National Lottery was launched.
In the movie's initial phase, it was originally titled "The $2 Million Tip". Arnold Schwarzenegger was slated to star in the movie, but ultimately chose to star in Last Action Hero (1993) instead.
"Yvonne Biasi: Because of me, you have nothing. Charlie Lang: Because of you, I have you."
"Angel Dupree: [Narrating] Tonight, I had the opportunity to study grace and generosity under the direst of circumstances. Even in "their darkest hour", Officer Charlie Lang and the good-hearted Ms. Yvonne Biasi shared a bowl of soup with me. When I left, this good Samaritan gave me money from his own pocket, wishing it could be more."
