A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality
Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk
show.
Director:
Shira PivenWriter:
Eliot Laurence (screenplay)Stars:
Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini |Storyline
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality
Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk
show.
User Reviews
Fools and their money
are soon parted from one another. Nowhere does this saying hold true
more than with lottery winners. Alice Klieg, diagnosed with borderline
personality disorder, emerges from a solitary and sedentary life as the
new winner of $86 million from the state lottery. She begins to buy
airtime at a local television station that is desperate for cash.
Alice's new talk show "Welcome to Me" is a perfect reflection of her
impulsive, socially awkward, indecisive, random, obsessive, moody and
sensitive self. It features some of her favorite recopies (meatloaf
cake), traumatic events from her past (the "carousel of life"), and – of
course – swans (she loves swans). Her insistence upon absolute control
and predilection to get out of control, make for some interesting and
eccentric shows that are alternately extremely boring and explosive. The
dry and dark humor of the film fits the acting abilities of Kristen
Wiig perfectly. The film is funny as well as raw. I wish there was more
depth to the plot, however, for it relies too much on the wacky shows.
Seen at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
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