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Waffle Street (2015)

Waffle Street poster
Directed by
Ian Nelms, Eshom Nelms
Genre
comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 132 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man loses his high-paying job at a hedge fund. He starts working as a server at a waffle diner and learns about life from his coworkers and customers.

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What happens

Waffle Street is a 2015 American drama/comedy film directed by Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms and starring Danny Glover and James Lafferty. It is a film adaptation of James Adams’ memoir of the same name, published by Sourced Media Books in 2011. The riches-to-rags story follows Adams’ journey of self-discovery and redemption after losing his job as vice president of a multi-billion dollar hedge fund and finding work as a server at a local 24-hour diner. Waffle Street was filmed in Lehi, Utah in 2014, with most of the scenes being filmed in a local diner called One Man Band. It was named winner of Best Narrative Feature at the 2015 Hollywood Film Festival, the Audience Award Best Feature at the 2015 Red Rock Film Festival, and the Andretta Carpe Diem Award for Best Film at the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival. It initially released on September 24, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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