Welcome to Me 2014

     Alice Klieg lives in Palm Desert, California.  She has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and she’s seeing a therapist.  She wins the lottery and now she has $86 million dollars!!  She quits her psychiatric medications and she wants to have a talk show like Oprah.  She has recorded every televised showing of Oprah and her television has not been turned off in 11 years?  Alice makes a deal with a television company to have her own daily talk show and she writes a check for $15 million dollars.  She talks on camera about everything she’s thinking and her painful past experiences.  She also has cooking segments of unusual dishes?

     How not to spend millions of dollars!!  This film is different and good but the editing needs to be sharper.  There are too many of the television scenes and we can get the point quickly!!  I thought there was ambiguity over money at the end between Alice and her best friend Gina?  Is the conclusion real or just a ‘fun’ part of the television show?  3* (This movie is OK)

87 min, Comedy directed by Shira Piven with Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack, Loretta Devine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Thomas Mann, Tim Robbins.

Note:  Imdb 5.9 out of 10, 71% critic 48% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3*.

Special Note:  The director Shira Piven is the sister of Jeremy Piven.  Joyce Piven, the actress playing the mother of Kristen Wiig is the real mother of Shira and Jeremy!