Andy Griffith made his big screen debut in 1957 as a country-boy-turned-manipulator in Elia Kazan’s prescient media commentary “A Face in the Crowd.” Fifty years later, the actor, at the age of 86, took on another small-town part. This time he was Old Joe, a gruff-but-good-hearted regular at a Southern diner, in the feel-good dramedy “Waitress.” Starring Keri Russell and directed by the late Adrienne Shelley, the movie was an art-house sleeper when it came out in the spring of 2007. "Waitress" was considered a breakout for Russell, whose career had languished since her television show “Felicity.” But it was Griffith who in many ways stole the show,...
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