i be fairly surprise at the relatively hight rating of this movie . i come away feel cheat and primarily because the script create such cardboard character . jenna be a waitress with a genius for pie recipe in a southern town that should have be name misogynyville . all the waitress in the diner where jenna work commiserate in a support network of lowered expectation concern the male sex . every man be either goofy and grumpy or just plain obnoxious and a in the case of jenna husband and earl . just how bright and charm jenna happen to marry a neanderthal like earl be never fully explain and except for a reference to the fact that he change after he marry her . this would imply that earl be clever enough to hide his true nature during courtship and which i truly doubt . jenna become pregnant after an ill advise bout of drunken lovemaking with earl and which sidetrack her plan of become independent . she find that her doctor have semi retire and and a new and attractive ( albeit nervous ) doctor be take over her practice . he be a nice man and therefore from out of town . wonder what happen next . anyway the plot twist which be not predictable be baffle and a character exhibit behavior that serve the plot but not their persona . the principle actor give nice performance and and there be a decent bit from andy griffith at the town gruff but lovable old man and but not enough to save a script that need some re writes .