Alice Klieg
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May 1, 2015 · But “Welcome to Me” basically lives and dies by her performance, and, luckily, her Alice Klieg is a carefully and cunningly crafted creation, which exposes an undercurrent of pain and sorrow beneath her often placid, pixilated state.
A mentally unbalanced lottery winner (Kristen Wiig) goes off her medication, buys a talk show and uses it as a platform to broadcast her bizarre opinions on a wide variety of topics.
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- Shira Piven
- R
- Kristen Wiig
May 1, 2015 · Much of Welcome to Me involves the rollout of Alice’s bizarre show, itself called Welcome to Me and made up of awkward silences, unfortunate cooking tips, disturbingly intimate role-playing...
- Movie Critic
Apr 30, 2015 · A film review on Friday about “Welcome to Me” misidentified the mental illness of the lead character, Alice. She has borderline personality disorder, not bipolar disorder.
- Shira Piven
- A.O. Scott
- 87 min
May 1, 2015 · Welcome to Me: Directed by Shira Piven. With Kristen Wiig, Wes Bentley, Linda Cardellini, Joan Cusack. When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.
- (20K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Shira Piven
- 2015-05-01
May 1, 2015 · WELCOME TO ME is irreverent, funny, and moving, and Wiig carries off a complicated role with aplomb and confidence. But you'll pay for all of that with a sense of discomfort that will lodge itself into your conscience midway through the film and clamor for recognition by the end.
May 1, 2015 · What happens when a young woman with Borderline Personality Disorder wins the lottery? In the case of Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig), she quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.
