Welcome
to Me
(2015)
Welcome
To Me is a comedy about
Alice Klieg (Kristen
Wiig), who suffers from
borderline personality
disorder and one day she
wins the lottery, stops
taking her medication
and then heads to a
casino to start living
her new life. Obsessed
with Oprah Winfrey, she
goes to a local TV
station owned by Rich
(James Marsden) and his
brother Gabe (Wes
Bentley) and convinces
them to put her on the
air, well a whole heap
of money also helped.
The show is all about
Alice and is basically a
stream of consciousness
consisting of settling
old scores and bizarre
segments involving
things she wants to do,
including spaying her
dogs. But, this comes at
a price with this
fracturing her
friendship with Gina
(Linda Cardellini), who
has hit a rut in her own
life and ostracizing her
psychiatrist (Tim
Robbins). After series
events end in her having
a breakdown, she decides
to have one more show to
right all her wrongs.
Maybe
I just don't understand
the vagaries of mental
illness, but I just didn't
get this movie at all.
While watching the movie,
I felt like Jennifer Jason
Leigh's character who
quits after being
exhausted by her
co-workers just letting
Alice do whatever she
wants. This movie plays as
a satirical comedy, but I
just didn't get any of the
humour at all. Yeah, not
for me, move on ...
Kristen
Wiig collages
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