9. Waitress – $1.6M

Premiering at this year’s Sundance to bittersweet audience acclaim, WAITRESS is the work of sadly deceased filmmaker and actress Adrienne Shelly. Before being tragically murdered in 2006, Shelly appeared in many films as an actress and behind the scenes as a writer and director. WAITRESS stars Keri Russell (FELICITY) as Jenna, a waitress saving up to escape an emotionally abusive husband (Jeremy Sisto) and a life unlike the one of her dreams. When an unplanned pregnancy lands Jenna in the care of the southern town’s new doctor, her life starts to take off in ways she never imagined.