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Welcome to Me (2014)
Director: Shira Piven
Cast: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig) is a likable but neurotic young woman who suffers from borderline personality disorder. She lives her life in a TV fantasy world and has tapes of every show Oprah Winfrey ever did. Alice hasn't shut off her TV in 11 years, it's her world. Nothing ever seems to go her way, until one day when she wins 86 million dollars in a lottery. She then quits taking her 'happy pills', which are actually prescription medicine for her personality disorder. Then she decides to spend her millions on buying her own TV talk show, starring herself. She names it 'Welcome to Me', and she proceeds to spill her guts on live TV to the utter horror of everyone watching.
I liked this one! It's different, it's fresh. We like poor Alice, but she does some very tasteful things on her TV show. And that's where the humor comes from. I don't know why it had to be an R rating, the story itself is suited to PG13. Do we really need all this potty mouth in what could have been a fresh and fun movie. With a little better decisions by the director, this could have been a exceptional film.
Directed by a fairly new director, Shira Piven. She's not a well known director but I like the way she put this film together.
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Better check it out....
Director: Shira Piven
Cast: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig) is a likable but neurotic young woman who suffers from borderline personality disorder. She lives her life in a TV fantasy world and has tapes of every show Oprah Winfrey ever did. Alice hasn't shut off her TV in 11 years, it's her world. Nothing ever seems to go her way, until one day when she wins 86 million dollars in a lottery. She then quits taking her 'happy pills', which are actually prescription medicine for her personality disorder. Then she decides to spend her millions on buying her own TV talk show, starring herself. She names it 'Welcome to Me', and she proceeds to spill her guts on live TV to the utter horror of everyone watching.
I liked this one! It's different, it's fresh. We like poor Alice, but she does some very tasteful things on her TV show. And that's where the humor comes from. I don't know why it had to be an R rating, the story itself is suited to PG13. Do we really need all this potty mouth in what could have been a fresh and fun movie. With a little better decisions by the director, this could have been a exceptional film.
Directed by a fairly new director, Shira Piven. She's not a well known director but I like the way she put this film together.
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Better check it out....