
Alice suffers from borderline personality disorder, but she has what she needs in life. She has an apartment, she has a best friend, and she has tapes of every Oprah Winfrey show. And now, after winning the lottery, she also has 83 million dollars. What she doesn't have is an outlet for the whole world to know who she really is. The TV station cut her off when she tried turning her lottery announcement into a frank discussion of her sexual experiences, but with her money in h... (Full plot summary below)
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Alice suffers from borderline personality disorder, but she has what she needs in life. She has an apartment, she has a best friend, and she has tapes of every Oprah Winfrey show. And now, after winning the lottery, she also has 83 million dollars. What she doesn't have is an outlet for the whole world to know who she really is. The TV station cut her off when she tried turning her lottery announcement into a frank discussion of her sexual experiences, but with her money in hand, she's off to LA to convince two struggling TV producer brothers to produce her own TV show. Whatever it costs, she's going to do it. From swan entrances to dog neutering, she is going to introduce the world to Alice. But is the world ready for Alice?
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| GrantlandWesley MorrisShira Piven has directed this movie with a deft but perfectly zany touch. |
| SalonAndrew O'HehirThis is a tragicomic fable about an all-too-real social predicament rather a wish-fulfillment fantasy, and the tragic result may be that hardly anyone notices how good it is, or the sickest, weirdest, most triumphant performance of Wiig’s career. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperWiig manages to make Alice funny as hell, endearing, sad and sometimes a little frightening. There’s not an ounce of condescension or preciousness in the performance. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonA sort of miracle. A black comedy about a not-well woman saving herself is a savage satire on a not-well world that doesn't realize anything's wrong. |
| The National (UAE)Chris NewbouldWiig 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. |
| Globe and MailBrad WheelerWelcome to Me is an unsettling comedy, and I mean that in the best possible way. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowThe most recent in a series of Wiig's depressed/repressed roles. No one's asking for a perky rom-com, but please, something different. |
| Slant MagazineChristopher GrayThe film rejects a fawning (or even particularly detailed) account of mental illness in favor of a plunge into the deep end of a bottomless ego. |
| Slant MagazineChristopher GreyThe film rejects a fawning (or even particularly detailed) account of mental illness in favor of a plunge into the deep end of a bottomless ego. |
| National PostDavid BerryThough it is shaggy and loose, Welcome to Me wants to confront us with how casually and confusingly we tend to treat mental illness, laughing in its face or vaguely romanticizing it or tightly stigmatizing it. |