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- Therefore, I must salute the efforts of director Shira Piven, who somehow manages to walk the fine line between mawkish and mocking with “Welcome to Me,” a humorous if occasionally horrific pitch-black satire about an unstable lottery winner from Palm Desert, Calif., who goes off her meds and invests her $86 million jackpot into a vanity talk show.
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May 1, 2015 · Therefore, I must salute the efforts of director Shira Piven, who somehow manages to walk the fine line between mawkish and mocking with “Welcome to Me,” a humorous if occasionally horrific pitch-black satire about an unstable lottery winner from Palm Desert, Calif., who goes off her meds and invests her $86 million jackpot into a vanity ...
May 8, 2015 · The metafictional twist of a TV comedian who wants to be taken seriously in movies starring as a crazy person who wants to be taken seriously on TV is the most interesting aspect of director Shira...
Apr 30, 2015 · “Welcome to Me” is an entirely different kind of story – arguably darker, yes, but also more honest and more delicate. It’s almost wrong to call this movie satire: Once we accept the...
- Andrew O'hehir
Welcome to Me is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed by Shira Piven and written by Eliot Laurence. The film stars Kristen Wiig as Alice Klieg, a lottery winner with borderline personality disorder who uses her newfound wealth to write and star in her own syndicated talk show.
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 · 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...
May 20, 2015 · In a way, Welcome is like a satire of the sort of hyper-realized, manic comedy that former SNL cast members usually tackle. What does it mean to make a comedy about indulging the whims of...
