Welcome To Me
hen she wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show. Inspired by the immortal Oprah, she broadcasts her dirty laundry as both a form of exhibitionism and a platform to share her peculiar views on everything from nutrition to relationships to neutering pets.
16 October 1958, West Covina, California, USA
4 September 1978, Jonesboro, Arkansas, USA
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 March 1971, El Paso, Texas, USA
28 November 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
27 September 1991, Portland, Oregon, USA
29 January 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
22 August 1973, Canandaigua, New York, USA
April 28, 2016
Wiig's depiction of a woman whose stories are apt to end with the declaration "then I went off my meds" is as disquieting as it is scarily accurate.
May 22, 2015
No shortage of talent here. Pity they're all underused.
May 07, 2015
There's dark comedy, and then there's take-no-prisoners, dare-you-to-keep-looking dark comedy. Kristen Wiig's "Welcome to Me" falls decidedly in the latter category, making us laugh but feel deeply unsettled about doing so.
April 03, 2016
Ultimately, you are tempted to conclude that the film is a bit like Alice's chat show: a vanity project.
June 09, 2016
Wiig delivers a standout performance that manages to make Alice at once interesting, humorous, irritating and infuriating, but always successfully stops just short of making her an object of ridicule.
May 23, 2015
There's not much plot here and very little in the way of character development. Alice is defined by her disorder and the screenplay isn't interested in delving into her life and relationships.
May 22, 2015
Welcome to Me is an unsettling comedy, and I mean that in the best possible way.
May 15, 2016
A funny and touching Kristen Wiig walks an acting tightrope in this dark comedy.
May 08, 2015
It's a tricky business playing someone who is mentally ill and perhaps should be confined for observation, especially in a dark comedy. Wiig manages to make Alice funny as hell, endearing, sad and sometimes a little frightening.
March 27, 2016
Whatever the state of your mental health, you'll want to follow Alice down the rabbit hole.
May 14, 2015
"Welcome to Me" has its charming, funny and sensitive moments, but it also suffers from its own form of instability.
