AMERICAN WAITRESS is a documentary feature film that examines the lives, attitudes, perceptions and experiences of waitresses. But it is not just a film about waitresses. It is a film about life, about social structures, about human nature. The film reveals the human side of this service industry through interviews with waitresses, restaurant employees and customers, and explores in-depth the personal lives of four of these waitresses. We go home with them and out with them -- to tattoo parlors, bars, motorcycle shops, mountaintops, welding classes and even hunting. AMERICAN WAITRESS uncovers a very human dimension to these individual and by inference, to all those among us who while in uniform, practice the art of service with a smile. Will we ever perceive our friendly food server in the same way again? Not likely. director/producer: Vanessa Vassar; executive producers: Richard Becker / Nicholas Ballas; camera: Gabriel Shaw; edit/associate producer: Grant Taylor; co-producer: Sula Miller; associate producer: Anna Darrah; supervising producer: Alton Walpole; music: PHONOROID; music producer: Axel Manrico Heilhecker.