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Welcome to Me (2014)

Welcome to Me poster
Directed by
Shira Piven
Genre
comedy film, comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
R
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 341 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman named Alice wins a big lottery jackpot and decides to spend her money on producing her own TV talk show. She has borderline personality disorder and the show becomes a strange reflection of her inner life.

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What happens

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. The cast includes James Marsden, Linda Cardellini and Wes Bentley. The film was released on May 1, 2015, in a limited release, receiving generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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